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Penelope Fitzgerald

Born

in Lincoln, England, The United Kingdom

December 17, 1916

Died

April 28, 2000

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Biographies & Memoirs, Nonfiction

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Penelope Mary Fitzgerald was a Booker Prize-winning novelist, poet, essayist and biographer from Lincoln, England. In 2008 The Times listed her among "the 50 greatest British writers since 1945". The Observer in 2012 placed her final novel, The Blue Flower, among "the ten best historical novels". A.S. Byatt called her, "Jane Austen’s nearest heir for precision and invention." ...more

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Average rating: 3.47 · 59,656 ratings · 8,776 reviews · 46 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Bookshop 3.28 avg rating — 27,706 ratings — published 1978 — 91 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Offshore 3.59 avg rating — 8,352 ratings — published 1979 — 61 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Blue Flower 3.44 avg rating — 6,873 ratings — published 1995 — 69 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Beginning of Spring 3.71 avg rating — 3,810 ratings — published 1988 — 48 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Gate of Angels 3.61 avg rating — 2,844 ratings — published 1990 — 59 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Human Voices 3.58 avg rating — 2,028 ratings — published 1980 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	At Freddie's 3.57 avg rating — 1,151 ratings — published 1982 — 38 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Golden Child 3.52 avg rating — 957 ratings — published 1977 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Innocence 3.57 avg rating — 883 ratings — published 1986 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Means of Escape 3.67 avg rating — 531 ratings — published 2000 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is – in other words, not a thing, but a think.”
― Penelope Fitzgerald, The Gate of Angels

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“On the whole, I think you should write biographies of those you admire and respect, and novels about human beings who you think are sadly mistaken.”
― Penelope Fitzgerald

tags: writing, writing-advice, writing-craft, writing-humor

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“A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life, and as such it must surely be a necessary commodity.”
― Penelope Fitzgerald, The Bookshop

tags: books, necessities, purpose-of-life, reading, spiritual-life, treasures

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January 2015 book

A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing

by Eimear McBride

5 votes, 35.7%

The Undertaking

by Audrey Magee

5 votes, 35.7%

The Flamethrowers

by Rachel Kushner

2 votes, 14.3%

The Blue Flower

by Penelope Fitzgerald

2 votes, 14.3%

Ahab's Wife, or The Star-Gazer

by Sena Jeter Naslund

0 votes, 0.0%

14 total votes

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