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Margaret Drabble
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1939
- Works
- 71
Top works
- עידן הקרח
- The Oxford companion to English literature
- Prentice Hall Literature--The British Tradition
- Reḥayim
- ʻIr shel zahav
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Writing
Known for
- The Brontës Lived Here — Self1973
- I Love This Dirty Town — Self - Narrator (voice)1969
- One Pair of Eyes1967
- Omnibus1967
via TMDB
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 4
- Total plays
- 11
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- TBtools: An Integrative Toolkit Developed for Interactive Analyses of Big Biological Data
· 2020 · cited 12,398x
- Parkinsonism
· 1967 · cited 9,743x
- Global, regional, and national prevalence of overweight and obesity in children and adults during 1980–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013
· 2014 · cited 9,234x
- Pilon: An Integrated Tool for Comprehensive Microbial Variant Detection and Genome Assembly Improvement
· 2014 · cited 8,996x
- The Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) project
· 2013 · cited 8,573x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “How unjust life is, to make physical charm so immediately apparent or absent, when one can get away with vices untold for ever.”
- “Sometimes it seems the only accomplishment my education ever bestowed on me, the ability to think in quotations.”
- “Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.”
- “Lord knows what incommunicable small terrors infants go through, unknown to all. We disregard them, we say they forget, because they have not the words to make us remember.”
- “The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much unintermittent gloom.”
- “The middle years, caught between children and parents, free of neither: the past stretches back too densely, it is too thickly populated, the future has not yet thinned out.”
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1939-06-05 ) 5 June 1939 (age 87) , Sheffield , West Riding of Yorkshire, England
- Occupation
- Biographer novelist short story writer
- Education
- Newnham College , University of Cambridge
- Years active
- 1963–
- Notable works
- A Summer Bird-Cage The Garrick Year The Millstone Jerusalem the Golden The Needle's Eye
- Notable awards
- John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize , 1966 , James Tait Black Memorial Prize , 1967 , The Yorkshire Post Book Award (Finest Fiction) , 1972 , American Academy of Arts and Letters E. M. Forster Award , 1973 , Golden PEN Award , 2011
- Spouses
- Clive Swift ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1960 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1975 ) Michael Holroyd ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1982 )
- Children
- Adam Swift Rebecca Swift Joe Swift
- Relatives
- A. S. Byatt (sister)
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Encyclopedic overview
Dame Margaret Drabble, Lady Holroyd (born 5 June 1939) is an English biographer, novelist and short story writer.
Drabble's books include The Millstone (1965), which won the following year's John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize, and Jerusalem the Golden, which won the 1967 James Tait Black Memorial Prize. She was honoured by the University of Cambridge in 2006, having earlier received awards from numerous redbrick (e.g. Sheffield, Hull, Manchester,) and plateglass universities (such as Bradford, Keele, East Anglia and York). She received the American Academy of Arts and Letters E. M. Forster Award in 1973.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Margaret Drabble” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.