Penelope Fitzgerald

Penelope Fitzgerald (17 December 1916 – 28 April 2000) was a Booker Prize-winning English novelist, poet, essayist and biographer. In 2008, The Times included her in a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". In 2012, The Observer named her final novel, The Blue Flower, as one of "The 10 best historical novels".

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    At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That’s a form of divine drunkenness that we can all try.
    —F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)