Penelope Fitzgerald
Novelist and poet
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Penelope Mary Fitzgerald was a Booker Prize-winning novelist, poet, essayist and biographer from Lincoln, England. In 2008 The Times listed her among "the 50 greatest British writers since 1945". The Observer in 2012 placed her final novel, The... Wikipedia
Born: December 17, 1916, Lincoln, United Kingdom
Died: April 28, 2000 (age 83 years), London, United Kingdom
Spouse: Desmond Fitzgerald (m. 1941–1976)
Parents: E. V. Knox and Christina Frances Hicks
Children: Maria Fitzgerald and E. V. K. Fitzgerald
Notable awards: Booker Prize (1979); National Book Critics Circle Award (1997)
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