Margaret Drabble

Margaret Drabble has published eighteen novels, notably A Summer Bird-Cage (1962), The Millstone (1965) and The Pure Gold Baby (2013). She has also written one volume of short stories and several works of non-fiction, including studies of Wordsworth, Arnold Bennett and Angus Wilson. She edited two editions of the Oxford Companion to English Literature (1985, 2000). She was appointed DBE in 2008.