Margaret Drabble, DBE, novelist and critic, was born in Sheffield in 1939. She published her first novel, A Summer Bird-Cage, in 1963. This was followed by eighteen others. Her short stories, A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman, were published in 2011. She edited the Oxford Companion to English Literature (1985) and wrote biographies of Arnold Bennett (1974) and Angus Wilson (1995).
Margaret Drabble
