Biography
Dame Margaret Drabble, Lady Holroyd, (born 5 June 1939) 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.
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I Love This Dirty Town (1969)
Isadora (1968)
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Known ForWriting
Birthday1939-06-05 (85 years old)
RelationshipsClive Swift (1960-06-01 - 1975-01-01)
SpouseMichael Holroyd
ChildrenJoe Swift, Adam Swift
FatherJohn Drabble
SiblingsA. S. Byatt, Helen Langdon, Richard Drabble
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom
ResidencesSheffield, United Kingdom
AwardsSt. Louis Literary Award, E. M. Forster Award, John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire
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