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Margaret Drabble

Dame

Margaret Drabble

Drabble in 2011
Drabble in 2011
Born (1939-06-05) 5 June 1939 (age 85)
Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England
Occupation
  • Biographer
  • novelist
  • short story writer
EducationNewnham College, University of Cambridge
Years active1963–
Notable works
Notable awardsJohn Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize
1966
James Tait Black Memorial Prize
1967
The Yorkshire Post Book Award (Finest Fiction)
1972
American Academy of Arts and Letters E. M. Forster Award
1973
Golden PEN Award
2011
Spouses
  • (m. 1960; div. 1975)
  • (m. 1982)
Children
RelativesA. S. Byatt (sister)

Dame Margaret Drabble, Lady Holroyd, DBE, FRSL (born 5 June 1939)[1] is an English biographer, novelist and short story writer.

Drabble's books include The Millstone (1965), which won the following year's John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize, and Jerusalem the Golden, which won the 1967 James Tait Black Memorial Prize. She was honoured by the University of Cambridge in 2006, having earlier received awards from numerous redbrick (e.g. Sheffield, Hull, Manchester,) and plateglass universities (such as Bradford, Keele, East Anglia and York). She received the American Academy of Arts and Letters E. M. Forster Award in 1973.

Drabble also wrote biographies of Arnold Bennett and Angus Wilson and edited two editions of The Oxford Companion to English Literature and a book on Thomas Hardy.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference British Council: Literature was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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