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Her elder sister was the novelist and critic A. S. Byatt; the youngest sister is art historian Helen Langdon, and their brother is the barrister Richard Drabble, KC. Drabble's father participated in the placement of Jewish refugees in Sheffield during the 1930s. [2]
Aug 19, 2013 · By 1990, the rivalry was fierce enough—and the estrangement deep enough—that Drabble reportedly bet an acquaintance $100 that her sister would win the Booker Prize. Why?
Her sisters are the novelist Margaret Drabble and the art historian Helen Langdon. Her brother Richard Drabble KC is a barrister. The Drabble father participated in the placement of Jewish refugees in Sheffield during the 1930s. The mother was a Shavian and the father a Quaker.
Byatt is the daughter of a judge and the sister of novelist Margaret Drabble. She was educated at the University of Cambridge, Bryn Mawr College, and the University of Oxford and then taught at University College, London, from 1972 to 1983, when she left to write full-time.
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Jul 13, 2011 · The long-running non-speaks with her elder sister Sue – better known as the novelist A S Byatt or Dame Antonia Duffy – suggest a difficult woman, easy to offend.
Jun 1, 2024 · In 1982 Drabble married her second husband, British biographer Michael Holroyd. Her sister was acclaimed writer A.S. Byatt. Drabble was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1980 and advanced to Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in 2008.
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Nov 17, 2023 · Her younger sister is the novelist and biographer Dame Margaret Drabble. The pair's relationship reportedly came under strain due to autobiographical elements in each of their books, and Dame...
