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Penelope Fitzgerald (17 December 1916 28 April 2000) was a Booker Prize-winning English novelist, poet, essayist and biographer. She launched her literary career in 1975, at the age of 58, when she published a biography of Pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones (1833 1898). This was followed two years later by The Knox Brothers, a joint biography of her father and uncles in which she managed to never mention herself by name. Later in 1977, she published her first novel, The Golden Child, a comic murder mystery with a museum setting inspired by the Tutankhamun mania earlier in the decade. The…mehr

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Penelope Fitzgerald (17 December 1916 28 April 2000) was a Booker Prize-winning English novelist, poet, essayist and biographer. She launched her literary career in 1975, at the age of 58, when she published a biography of Pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones (1833 1898). This was followed two years later by The Knox Brothers, a joint biography of her father and uncles in which she managed to never mention herself by name. Later in 1977, she published her first novel, The Golden Child, a comic murder mystery with a museum setting inspired by the Tutankhamun mania earlier in the decade. The novel is said to have been written to amuse her terminally-ill husband, who died in 1976.