Penelope Fitzgerald was one of the most elegant and distinctive voices in British literature. She was the author of a collection of short stories and nine novels, three of which—The Bookshop, Innocence and The Gate of Angels—were shortlisted for the Booker Prize. She won the prize in 1979 for Offshore. Her last novel, The Blue Flower, was the most admired novel of 1995, chosen no fewer than nineteen times in the press as ‘Book of the Year’. It won America’s National Book Critics Circle Award.
A superb biographer and critic, Penelope Fitzgerald was also the author of lives of the artist Edward Burne-Jones and the poet Charlotte Mew, and of The Knox Brothers, a study of her remarkable father Edmund Knox, editor of Punch, and his equally remarkable brothers.
She died in 2000.
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