Margaret Forster

1938 - 2016

Country of citizenship: United Kingdom

Languages spoken, written or signed: English

Educated at: Somerville College

Occupation: journalist, novelist, screenwriter, writer, literary critic, biographer, historian

Award received: Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature

Position held: Booker Prize judge

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Margaret Forster (25 May 1938 – 8 February 2016) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, historian and critic, best known for the 1965 novel Georgy Girl, made into a successful film of the same name, which inspired a hit song by The Seekers. Other successes were a 2003 novel, Diary of an Ordinary Woman, biographies of Daphne du Maurier and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and her memoirs Hidden Lives and Precious Lives. Source: Wikipedia (en)