Brenda Maddox

Brenda Maddox (1932-2019) was an acclaimed American-born biographer who spent most of her adult life in the UK, known for works like Nora: The Real Life of Molly Bloom (Whitbread Prize, National Book Award finalist), D.H. Lawrence: The Story of a Marriage (Whitbread Biography Prize), Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA (Los Angeles Times Book Prize), and Yeats's Ghosts. A Harvard graduate and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, she received awards including the Silver PEN Award, French Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger, and Suffrage Science award, contributing as a reviewer for major publications and BBC Radio 4.