Penelope Fitzgerald
Penelope Mary Fitzgerald was a celebrated British novelist, poet, essayist, and biographer born in Lincoln, England.
A Booker Prize winner, she began her literary career relatively late in life, yet produced a remarkable body of work.
In 2008, The Times ranked her among the 50 greatest British writers since 1945, and The Observer placed her final novel among the ten best historical novels ever written.
Distinguished by her extraordinary precision, wit, and compression of language, she drew comparisons to Jane Austen.
A.S. Byatt described her as "Jane Austen's nearest heir for precision and invention.".
