Brenda Maddox

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Brenda Maddox was an American-born British biographer and journalist renowned for her insightful literary and historical biographies, including a notable life of Nora Barnacle, James Joyce’s wife.

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instanceOf biographer
human
journalist
awardReceived Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography
Whitbread Biography Award
linked to: Whitbread Prize
countryOfBirth United States of America
countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom
United States of America
countryOfDeath United Kingdom
dateOfBirth 1932-02-24
dateOfDeath 2019-06-16
describedAs American-born British biographer and journalist
educatedAt Harvard University
London School of Economics
employer The Guardian
The New Statesman
linked to: New Statesman

The Observer
The Times
familyName Maddox
genre biography
historical biography
literary biography
givenName Brenda
languageOfWorkOrName English
name Brenda Maddox
notableFor biographies of literary and scientific figures
biography of Nora Barnacle, wife of James Joyce
notableWork D.H. Lawrence: The Story of a Marriage
George’s Ghosts: A New Life of W.B. Yeats
Nora: A Biography of Nora Joyce
Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA
The Half-Parent: Living with Other People’s Children
The Married Man: A Life of D.H. Lawrence
Yeats’s Ghosts: The Secret Life of W.B. Yeats
occupation biographer
journalist
literary critic
non-fiction writer
placeOfBirth Bridgewater, Massachusetts
placeOfDeath London
linked to: London, England
residence London
linked to: London, England
sexOrGender female
spouse John Maddox

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Nora Barnacle biographyBy Brenda Maddox
Brenda Maddox name Brenda Maddox