Margaret Forster

Margaret Forster

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BIRTHDAY May 25, 1938
BIRTH SIGN Gemini
BIRTHPLACE England
AGE ? years old
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ABOUT MARGARET FORSTER

Acclaimed British fiction author, biographer, memoir writer, and literary critic. Her best-known works include Diary of an Ordinary Woman, Georgy Girl, and Precious Lives.

After graduating from Somerville College, Oxford with a degree in history, she taught briefly at Barnsbury Girls' School in London.

She published Keeping the World Away, a slightly fictionalized biography of Welsh artist Gwen John, in 2006.

She married broadcast journalist and writer Hunter Davies .

She published an award-winning 1989 biography of poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning .