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Biography
Name:
Penelope Fitzgerald
Variant Name:
Penelope (Mary Knox) Fitzgerald, Penelope Mary Fitzgerald, Penelope (Mary) Fitzgerald
Penelope Fitzgerald's novels are described by Frank Kermode in the London Review of Books as "the kind of fiction in which perfection is almost to be hoped for." Louis B. Jones, in The New York Times Book Review (1 March 1992), places Fitzgerald firmly...
From virtually the outset of her career as a novelist, Penelope Fitzgerald's work has attracted serious critical attention. Her second novel, The Bookshop (1978), was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, which is Britain's most valuable literary award,...
Penelope Fitzgerald (17 December, 1916 - 28 April, 2000) was a Booker Prize-winning British poet, essayist and biographer. She is perhaps best known as the author of nine novels, each of which displays characteristic qualities of intelligence, elegance...
PENELOPE FITZGERALD delighted perhaps a wider range of readers than any novelist of her time. She was admired and enjoyed by every novel reader, but also by people who generally never read a novel at all. The power of her mind immediately made itself...
THE MEANS OF ESCAPE by Penelope Fitzgerald (Flamingo, 12.99) IWRITE too short; it's such a worry to me," Penelope Fitzgerald confessed to Hermione Lee in a radio interview. "My main trouble is that I always think I don't need to explain things to the...
In the following essay, Bawer traces the distinctive characteristics of Fitzgerald’s fiction and asserts that these features are most prominent in The Gate of Angels.
In the following essay, Gitzen studies Fitzgerald’s use of compression in her novels, tracing common features including a short time span, a restriction of plot, and a minimum number of prominent characters.
In the following review, Raban lauds Fitzgerald’s ability to write as if from first-hand memory instead of historical research, especially in her Human Voices.
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