Penelope Mary Knox (1916-12-17)17 December 1916 Lincoln, England
Died
28 April 2000(2000-04-28) (aged 83) London, England
Occupation
Writer
Period
20th century
Notable works
Offshore (1979)
The Blue Flower (1995)
Notable awards
Booker Prize (1979)
National Book Critics Circle Award (1997)
Spouse
Desmond Fitzgerald
(m. 1941; died 1976)
Parents
E. V. Knox (father) Mary Shepard (step-mother)
Relatives
Wilfred Knox (uncle)
Ronald Knox (uncle)
Dilly Knox (uncle)
Winifred Peck (aunt)
Penelope Mary Fitzgerald (17 December 1916 – 28 April 2000) was a Booker Prize-winning novelist, poet, essayist and biographer from Lincoln, England.[1] In 2008 The Times listed her among "the 50 greatest British writers since 1945".[2]The Observer in 2012 placed her final novel, The Blue Flower, among "the ten best historical novels".[3] A.S. Byatt called her, "Jane Austen’s nearest heir for precision and invention."[4]
^Hollinghurst, Alan (4 December 2014). "The Victory of Penelope Fitzgerald". The New York Review of Books. 61 (19). Archived from the original on 4 February 2016. Retrieved 1 January 2024.
^"The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". The Times (London). 5 January 2008. Retrieved 1 February 2010.
^Skidelsky, William (13 May 2012). "The 10 best historical novels". The Observer. London. Retrieved 13 May 2012.
^‘Penelope Fitzgerald’, Telegraph, 3 May 2000, p. 27
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