Margaret Drabble
Dame Margaret Drabble, Lady Holroyd, DBE, FRSL (born 5 June 1939) is an English novelist, biographer, and critic. Second daughter of the advocate and novelist John F. Drabble and the teacher Kathleen Marie . Her older sister is the novelist and criti
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Dame Margaret Drabble, Lady Holroyd, DBE, FRSL (born 5 June 1939) is an English novelist, biographer, and critic. Second daughter of the advocate and novelist John F. Drabble and the teacher Kathleen Marie . Her older sister is the novelist and critic Dame A.S. Byatt. Drabble has published 19 novels. Her first, A Summer Bird Cage was published in 1963. Her third novel, The Millstone (1965), brought her the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1966, and Jerusalem the Golden won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1967. She also wrote The Needle's Eye in 1972. Drabble was appointed CBE in the 1980 Queen's Birthday Honors, the University of Cambridge awarded her an honorary Doctorate in Letters in 2006, and she was promoted to DBE in the 2008. In 2003, she was the recipient of the St. Louis Literary Award. In 2011, she was awarded the Golden PEN Award by English PEN for "a Lifetime's Distinguished Service to Literature".
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