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Penelope Fitzgerald

3.4/5 ( ratings)

Born: December 16 1916

Died: 2727 04 20002000

Penelope Fitzgerald was an English novelist, poet, essayist and biographer. In 2008, The Times included her in a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". In 2012, The Observer named her final novel, The Blue Flower, as one of "the ten best historical novels".

Fitzgerald was the author of nine novels. Her novel Offshore was the winner of the Booker Prize. A further three novels — The Bookshop, The Beginning of Spring and The Gate of Angels — also made the shortlist.

She was educated at Wycombe Abbey and Somerville College, Oxford university, from which she graduated in 1938 with a congratulatory First.

She was the granddaughter of Edward Lee Hicks

Penelope Fitzgerald

3.4/5 ( ratings)

Born: December 16 1916

Died: 2727 04 20002000

Penelope Fitzgerald was an English novelist, poet, essayist and biographer. In 2008, The Times included her in a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". In 2012, The Observer named her final novel, The Blue Flower, as one of "the ten best historical novels".

Fitzgerald was the author of nine novels. Her novel Offshore was the winner of the Booker Prize. A further three novels — The Bookshop, The Beginning of Spring and The Gate of Angels — also made the shortlist.

She was educated at Wycombe Abbey and Somerville College, Oxford university, from which she graduated in 1938 with a congratulatory First.

She was the granddaughter of Edward Lee Hicks

Books from Penelope Fitzgerald

The Bookshop

3.2/5 ( ratings)

The Blue Flower

3.4/5 ( ratings)

Offshore

3.6/5 ( ratings)

La librería

3.2/5 ( ratings)

The Gate of Angels

3.6/5 ( ratings)

The Beginning of Spring

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Human Voices

3.6/5 ( ratings)

At Freddie's

3.5/5 ( ratings)

The Golden Child

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Innocence

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The Means of Escape

3.7/5 ( ratings)

House-Bound

3.4/5 ( ratings)

The Knox Brothers

3.8/5 ( ratings)

The Afterlife: Essays and Criticism

4.1/5 ( ratings)

The Best of Books and Company: about books for those who delight in them

3.1/5 ( ratings)

Голубой цветок

3.3/5 ( ratings)

Inocencia

3.3/5 ( ratings)

Floarea albastra

3.3/5 ( ratings)

Voces humanas

3.3/5 ( ratings)

Edward Burne-Jones

3.3/5 ( ratings)