Margaret Drabble

Margaret Drabble was born in Sheffield, England, in 1939.
* She is a novelist, biographer, and critic.
* She is the sister of the novelist A. S. Byatt.
* Her first novel, A Summer Bird Cage, was published in 1963.
* She has written over 20 novels, including The Millstone (1965), Jerusalem the Golden (1967), and The Sea Lady (2007).
* She has also written several biographies, including a life of her friend and fellow novelist Iris Murdoch.
* She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
* She was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2008.
* She continues to write and lecture.