MARGARET FORSTER

'Margaret Forster' (born May 25, 1938) is a British author. She was born in Carlisle, England, read history at Somerville College, Oxford, and 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 famously said of Vikram Seth's ''A Suitable Boy'' that it was "of entirely dubious literary merit."[1]
She is the author of many successful novels, including ''Georgy Girl'' (filmed in 1966 and adapted for a short-lived 1970 Broadway musical), ''Lady's Maid'', ''Diary of an Ordinary Woman'', ''Have the Men Had Enough?'' and ''The Memory Box'', two memoirs, ''Hidden Lives'' and ''Precious Lives'', and several acclaimed biographies, most recently ''Good Wives'' and ''keeping out the world''. She wrote "Rich Desserts and Captain's Thin", an account of the Carr's biscuit factory in Carlisle.
''Precious Lives'' won the J. R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography in 1999. Forster is married to the writer Hunter Davies and her daughter Caitlin is also an accomplished novelist.

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