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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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Penelope Fitzgerald’s books

Average rating: 3.47 · 59,053 ratings · 8,672 reviews · 46 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Bookshop 3.28 avg rating — 27,476 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 — 8,257 ratings — published 1979 — 60 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 — 6,831 ratings — published 1995 — 68 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 — 3,766 ratings — published 1988 — 47 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 — 2,823 ratings — published 1990 — 57 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 3.59 avg rating — 2,005 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 — 1,145 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 — 943 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 — 880 ratings — published 1986 — 26 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 3.66 avg rating — 529 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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Quotes by Penelope Fitzgerald (?)

“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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Polls

July is literary/general fiction.

This list of books is pulled from:
Booker Prize lists (eligible, nominees for the Longlist, Shortlist, winners or non-winners...various years)
National Book Awards (Longlist, Shortlist, winners...various years)
Women's Prize for Fiction (Shortlist, winners...various years)
Pulitzer Prize winners

Voting will be open through Thursday, June 11.

The Bookshop

Penelope Fitzgerald

2 votes, 66.7%

The Age of Innocence

Edith Wharton

1 vote, 33.3%

The North Water

Ian McGuire

0 votes, 0.0%

Bel Canto

Ann Patchett

0 votes, 0.0%

3 total votes

3 comments

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