4.BIOGRAFHY OF MARGARET DRABBLE
Drabble was born in Sheffield, Yorkshire, as the second daughter of the advocate and novelist John F. Drabble
and the teacher Kathleen Marie, née Bloor. Her elder sister is the novelist and
critic A. S. Byatt and their younger sister is the art historian Helen Langdon.
After attending the Quaker boarding-school Mount
School at York, where her mother was employed, Drabble received a major scholarship
for Newnham College, Cambridge. She studied English and was awarded a starred double first (a grading
that indicates she attained exceptionally high scores in her university degree)
She joined the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford-upon-Avon in 1960, at one point serving as an understudy for Vanessa Redgrave, before leaving to pursue a literary career. Her first novel, A
Summer Bird Cage, was published in 1963. She chaired the National Book
League (now Booktrust) from 1980 to 1982.
Drabble was married to actor Clive Swift between 1960 and 1975; they have three children. In 1982, she married
the writer and biographer Michael
Holroyd (now Sir
Drabble was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1980 Queen's Birthday Honours,[1] the University
of Cambridge awarded her an honorary Doctorate in Letters in 2006, and she was promoted to Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2008
Birthday Honours.
In response to the U.S. invasion of Iraq she wrote an
article calling herself anti-American, saying "My anti-Americanism has become almost uncontrollable. It
has possessed me like a disease. It rises in my throat like acid reflux."
She closed by saying, "Long live the other America, and may this one pass
away soon," referring to the rest of America that did not vote Michael);
they live in London and Somerset.for George W. Bush for President.
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