Margaret Forster (born 25 May 1938) is a British author. She was born in Carlisle, England, where she attended Carlisle and County High School for Girls (1949-1956), and then won an Open Scholarship to read modern history at Somerville College, Oxford, from where she graduated in 1960.

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  • Margaret Forster (born 25 May 1938) is a British author. She was born in Carlisle, England, where she attended Carlisle and County High School for Girls (1949-1956), and then won an Open Scholarship to read modern history at Somerville College, Oxford, from where she graduated in 1960. After a short period as a teacher at Barnsbury Girls' School in Islington, north London (1961-1963), she has worked as a novelist, biographer and freelance literary critic, contributing regularly to book programmes on television, to BBC Radio 4 and various newspapers and magazines. She was a member of the BBC Advisory Committee on the Social Effects of Television (1975-1977),the Arts Council Literary Panel (1978-1981), and chief reviewer for non-fiction in the Evening Standard (1977-1980). She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1975. Forster married the writer, journalist and broadcaster Hunter Davies in 1960, and they have three children, Caitlin, Jake and Flora. Their elder daughter Caitlin is also a novelist. They have homes in Highgate, in London and in the Lake District. She is the author of many successful novels, including Georgy Girl (1965), Lady's Maid (1990), Diary of an Ordinary Woman (2003), Have the Men Had Enough? (1989) and The Memory Box (1999), two memoirs, Hidden Lives (1995) and Precious Lives (1998), and several acclaimed biographies, most recently Good Wives (2001) and a fictionalised biography of the artist Gwen John, Keeping the world away (2006). She wrote Rich Desserts and Captain's Thin (1997), an account of the Carr's biscuit factory in Carlisle. She has won awards for both her fiction and non-fiction works : Elizabeth Barrett Browning: a biography (Heinemann Award, 1989); Daphne du Maurier: The Secret Life of the Renowned Storyteller (Writers' Guild Award for Best Non-Fiction, 1993 - Fawcett Society Book Prize, 1994); Rich Desserts and Captain's Thin: a Family and Their Times 1831-1931 (Lex Prize of The Global Business Book Award, 1997); Precious Lives.
  • Margaret Forster ist eine britische Lehrerin, Journalistin und Schriftstellerin. 1975 wurde sie Mitglied der Royal Society of Literature. Sie ist verheiratet mit Hunter Davies und hat drei Kinder. Ihre Romane Das Vermächtnis meiner Mutter, Ich warte darauf, dass etwas geschieht, Schattenkinder und Dieses so kostbare Leben wurden von Roseli und Saskia Bontjes van Beek ins Deutsche übertragen.
  • Margaret Forster född 25 maj 1938 i Carlisle, är en engelsk författare. Forster studerade modern historia på Oxford. Hon undervisade några år på en flickskola innan hon blev författare på heltid. Hennes debut kom 1964 med Dames' delight. Hon placeras ofta in i facket realistisk kvinnoförfattare men skriver också biografier och litteraturkritik.
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  • Margaret Forster (born 25 May 1938) is a British author. She was born in Carlisle, England, where she attended Carlisle and County High School for Girls (1949-1956), and then won an Open Scholarship to read modern history at Somerville College, Oxford, from where she graduated in 1960.
  • Margaret Forster ist eine britische Lehrerin, Journalistin und Schriftstellerin. 1975 wurde sie Mitglied der Royal Society of Literature. Sie ist verheiratet mit Hunter Davies und hat drei Kinder. Ihre Romane Das Vermächtnis meiner Mutter, Ich warte darauf, dass etwas geschieht, Schattenkinder und Dieses so kostbare Leben wurden von Roseli und Saskia Bontjes van Beek ins Deutsche übertragen.
  • Margaret Forster född 25 maj 1938 i Carlisle, är en engelsk författare. Forster studerade modern historia på Oxford. Hon undervisade några år på en flickskola innan hon blev författare på heltid. Hennes debut kom 1964 med Dames' delight. Hon placeras ofta in i facket realistisk kvinnoförfattare men skriver också biografier och litteraturkritik.
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