December 17, 1916 - April 28, 2000
English novelist, poet, essayist and biographer
Author of "The Bookshop" (for which she was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1978), "Offshore" (for which she won the Booker Prize in 1979), "The Beginning of Spring" (for which she was shortlisted for The Booker Prize in 1988), "The Gate of Angels" (for which she was shortlisted for The Booker Prize in 1990) and "The Blue Flower" (for which she won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1998)
English novelist, poet, essayist and biographer
Author of "The Bookshop" (for which she was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1978), "Offshore" (for which she won the Booker Prize in 1979), "The Beginning of Spring" (for which she was shortlisted for The Booker Prize in 1988), "The Gate of Angels" (for which she was shortlisted for The Booker Prize in 1990) and "The Blue Flower" (for which she won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1998)
She and her husband, Desmond Fitzgerald, co-edited a magazine called World Review