Penelope Knox (17 December 1916 – 28 April 2000) was a Booker Prize-winning English novelist, poet, essayist and biographer.
She was the daughter of Punch editor Edmund Knox and the niece of theologian and crime writer Ronald Knox, cryptographer Dilly Knox and Bible scholar Wilfred Knox. "When I was young," Fitzgerald later wrote,
She was educated at Wycombe Abbey and Somerville College, Oxford; she worked for the BBC during World War II. In 1941...
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Penelope Knox (17 December 1916 – 28 April 2000) was a Booker Prize-winning English novelist, poet, essayist and biographer.
She was the daughter of Punch editor Edmund Knox and the niece of theologian and crime writer Ronald Knox, cryptographer Dilly Knox and Bible scholar Wilfred Knox. "When I was young," Fitzgerald later wrote,
She was educated at Wycombe Abbey and Somerville College, Oxford; she worked for the BBC during World War II. In 1941, she married Desmond Fitzgerald, an Irish soldier; they had three children, a son and two daughters. In the 1960s, she taught at the Italia Conti Academy, a drama school; she also worked in a bookshop in Southwold, Suffolk. For a time she lived in Battersea on the Thames, on a houseboat that reportedly sank twice.
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...
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