Penelope Fitzgerald

1916–2000

4 standalone books

Penelope Fitzgerald was a novelist, poet, essayist, and biographer from Lincoln, England. She was a Booker Prize winner and was recognized by The Times as one of "the 50 greatest British writers since 1945." Her final novel, The Blue Flower, was named "one of the ten best historical novels" by The Observer in 2012. A.S. Byatt described her as "Jane Austen’s nearest heir for precision and invention.

Born

1916