Dame Margaret Drabble was born in Sheffield in 1939 and was educated at Newnham College, Cambridge. She is the author of nineteen highly acclaimed novels. She has also written biographies, screenplays and was the editor of the Oxford Companion to English Literature. She was appointed CBE in 1980, and made DBE in the 2008 Honours list. She was also awarded the 2011 Golden PEN Award for a Lifetime's Distinguished Service to Literature. She is married to the biographer Michael Holroyd.
'Her bright, insouciant debut novel . . . joined the strengths of
old-school realism with the playful detachment and blatant
mythmaking of postmodernism' - New Yorker
'Her book . . . has considerable humour, urbanity and intelligence'
- Kirkus Reviews
'Praise for Margaret Drabble: One of the most thought-provoking and
intellectually challenging writers around' - Financial Times
'I have learned so much from Margaret Drabble's work. Her prose is
very beautiful, very funny, and at the same time very serious.
Novels like The Millstone and Jerusalem the Golden have helped me
to understand what great writing can be' - SALLY ROONEY
'Margaret Drabble's early novels were intimate and sprightly
chronicles of the small dissatisfactions and small triumphs of
young women like herself' - HILARY MANTEL
'One of the most versatile and accomplished authors of her
generation' - New Yorker
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