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Brenda Maddox (1932–2019)

Author of Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA

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Brenda Maddox is an award-winning biographer whose work has been translated into ten languages. Nora: A Biography of Nora Joyce, won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography, the Silver PEN Award, and the French Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger. Her life of D. H. Lawrence won the Whitbread Biography Award in 1974, and Yeats's Ghosts, on the married life of W. B. Yeats, was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize in 1998. She has been Home Affairs Editor for the Economist, has served as chairman of the Association of British Science Writers and is a member of the Royal Society's Science and Society Committee. She lives in London and Mid-Wales — biography from Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA… (more)
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Other names
Murphy, Brenda (maiden name)
Date of birth
1932-02-24
Date of death
2019-06-16
Burial location
Gender
female
Nationality
USA
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Birthplace
Brockton, Bridgewater, Massachusetts, USA
Place of death
London, England, UK
Cause of death
Places of residence
Massachusetts, USA
London, England, UK
Mid-Wales, UK
Education
Harvard University (BA | 1953 | English literature)
London School of Economics
Occupations
journalist
author
biographer
Relationships
Maddox, John (husband)
Maddox, Bronwen (daughter)
Maddox, Bruno (son)
Agents
Caradoc King (AP Watt)
Organizations
Association of British Science Writers
Royal Society's Science and Society Committee
Awards and honors
Royal Society of Literature (Fellow, 1999)
Suffrage Science Award (2011)
Whitbread Biography Award (1974)
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Brenda Maddox, Lady Maddox FRSL is an American author, journalist, and biographer, who has lived in the UK since 1959.
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