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(b.Margaret Drabble was born in Sheffield in 1939 and educated at the Mount School, York, and Newnham College, Cambridge. She is a novelist and critic, and editor of the fifth edition of The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Margaret Drabble is married to the biographer Michael Holroyd, and they divide their time between London and Somerset.
Genres: Literary Fiction
Series
Novels
A Summer Bird Cage (1962)
The Garrick Year (1964)
The Millstone (1965)
aka Thank You All Very Much
Jerusalem the Golden (1967)
The Waterfall (1969)
The Needle's Eye (1972)
London Consequences (1972) (with B S Johnson)
The Realms of Gold (1975)
The Ice Age (1977)
The Middle Ground (1980)
The Witch of Exmoor (1996)
The Peppered Moth (2000)
The Seven Sisters (2002)
The Red Queen (2004)
The Sea Lady (2006)
The Pure Gold Baby (2013)
The Dark Flood Rises (2016)
The Garrick Year (1964)
The Millstone (1965)
aka Thank You All Very Much
Jerusalem the Golden (1967)
The Waterfall (1969)
The Needle's Eye (1972)
London Consequences (1972) (with B S Johnson)
The Realms of Gold (1975)
The Ice Age (1977)
The Middle Ground (1980)
The Witch of Exmoor (1996)
The Peppered Moth (2000)
The Seven Sisters (2002)
The Red Queen (2004)
The Sea Lady (2006)
The Pure Gold Baby (2013)
The Dark Flood Rises (2016)
Collections
A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman (2011)
The New Abject (2020) (with Ramsey Campbell, David Constantine, Saleem Haddad, Mark Haddon, Matthew Holness, Lucie McKnight Hardy, Adam Marek, Paul Theroux and Lara Williams)
The New Abject (2020) (with Ramsey Campbell, David Constantine, Saleem Haddad, Mark Haddon, Matthew Holness, Lucie McKnight Hardy, Adam Marek, Paul Theroux and Lara Williams)
Novellas
Non fiction
Arnold Bennett (1974)
For Queen and Country (1978)
A Writer's Britain (1979)
The Oxford Companion to English Literature (1985)
Safe As Houses (1990)
Angus Wilson (1995)
The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature (1996) (with Jenny Stringer)
The Pattern in the Carpet (2009)
David Hockney (2012)
A Love Letter to Europe (2019) (with Jeffrey Boakye, Melvyn Bragg, Simon Callow, Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Tracey Emin, Will Hutton, Prue Leith, Jonathan Meades, Onjali Q Raúf, Chris Riddell, Tony Robinson and Pete Townshend)
For Queen and Country (1978)
A Writer's Britain (1979)
The Oxford Companion to English Literature (1985)
Safe As Houses (1990)
Angus Wilson (1995)
The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature (1996) (with Jenny Stringer)
The Pattern in the Carpet (2009)
David Hockney (2012)
A Love Letter to Europe (2019) (with Jeffrey Boakye, Melvyn Bragg, Simon Callow, Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Tracey Emin, Will Hutton, Prue Leith, Jonathan Meades, Onjali Q Raúf, Chris Riddell, Tony Robinson and Pete Townshend)
Anthologies containing stories by Margaret Drabble
Books about Margaret Drabble
Margaret Drabble recommends
Eva Trout (1968)
Elizabeth Bowen
"Miss Bowen is magnificent when she writes about conspiracy, duplicity and ambiguity, and her achievement is extremely impressive."
Gentlemen and Ladies (1968)
Susan Hill
"She has the gift of writing books that one has to read compulsively to the end."
Pilcrow (2008)
(John Cromer, book 1)
Adam Mars-Jones
"One of the most remarkable novels I have read in recent years."
Unexpected Lessons in Love (2013)
Bernardine Bishop
"Frank, courageous and entertaining. I felt better for reading it."
A Girl's Story (2020)
Annie Ernaux
"Ernaux has inherited de Beauvoir's role of chronicler to a generation."
22 Minutes of Unconditional Love (2020)
Daphne Merkin
"22 Minutes of Unconditional Love is a very strong book, full of echoes and recognitions and interest on many levels--personal, literary, sociological, philosophical. Its take on the freedoms and constraints of feminism is much needed. Daphne Merkin's prose has some of the shocking exhilaration of early Edna O'Brien."
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