Drabble, Margaret

(born June 5, 1939, Sheffield, Yorkshire, Eng.) British novelist. She graduated from the University of Cambridge. Her novels include The Realms of Gold (1975), The Radiant Way (1987), The Gates of Ivory (1991), The Peppered Moth (2000), and The Sea Lady (2007). She has also written literary biographies (like her husband, Michael Holroyd) and other literary studies and has edited the Oxford Companion to English Literature. The writer A.S. Byatt is her sister.

Source: Encyclopedia Britannica