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Dame Margaret Drabble, Lady Holroyd, DBE, FRSL (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.
Jun 1, 2024 · Margaret Drabble (born June 5, 1939, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England) is an English writer of novels that are skillfully modulated variations on the theme of a girl’s development toward maturity through her experiences of love, marriage, and motherhood.
Jul 7, 2023 · In a rare joint conversation recorded onstage in Montreal in 2001, popular novelist Margaret Drabble and her husband, the influential biographer Michael Holroyd, spoke to Eleanor Wachtel...
Margaret Drabble is primarily known as an English novelist, but is also a critic and biographer. Her first novel, A Summer Birdcage (1963), was quickly followed by the publication of The Garrick Year (1964).
Dame Margaret Drabble was born in Sheffield in 1939 and was educated at Newnham College, Cambridge. She is the author of eighteen novels including A Summer Bird-Cage, The Millstone, The Peppered Moth, The Red Queen, The Sea Lady and most recently, the highly acclaimed The Pure Gold Baby.
Jul 14, 2018 · Margaret Drabble is a dame of the British empire and, as she agrees from her house in Oxford, has been "part of modern life for a very long time". She was born in Sheffield in England...
Jul 13, 2011 · Margaret Drabble: 'It’s sad, but our feud is beyond repair’. Margaret Drabble talks about a lifetime of enmity with her sister, the writer A S Byatt, and of the joy derived from her new short...
