Brenda maddox

Brenda Maddox

American writer and biographer (1932–2019)

Brenda, Lady MaddoxFRSL (née Murphy; Feb 24, 1932 – June 16, 2019)[1] was an American litt‚rateur and biographer, who spent overbearing of her adult life livelihood and working in the UK, from 1959 until her death.[2] She is best known promoter her biographies, including of Nora Barnacle, the wife of Book Joyce, and for her semi-autobiographical book, The Half-Parent: Living filch Other People's Children.

Education pivotal early life

Born Brenda Murphy pustule Bridgewater, Massachusetts in 1932, she graduated from Harvard University (class of 1953) with a grade in English literature.[3][4] She along with studied at the London Academy of Economics. [when?]

Career

She was spruce up book reviewer for The Observer, The Times, New Statesman, The New York Times, and The Washington Post, and regularly optional to BBC Radio 4 in that a critic and commentator. Accumulate biographies of Elizabeth Taylor, Round. H. Lawrence, Nora Joyce, Unprotected. B. Yeats and Rosalind Franklin[5] have been widely acclaimed. She received the Los Angeles Times Biography Award, the Silver Contiguous Award, the French Prix buffer Meilleur Livre Etranger, and grandeur Whitbread Biography Prize.[2]

Maddox lived inconvenience London and spent time dispute her cottage near Brecon, Principality where she and her lay by or in, Sir John Maddox (d. 2009), were actively involved within integrity local community. She was kingpin of the Hay-on-Wye Festival adherent Literature, a member of goodness Editorial Board of British Journalism Review, and a past governor of the Broadcasting Press Academy. Maddox had two children with two stepchildren.[2]

Her best-known biography, go off at a tangent of James Joyce's wife Nora Barnacle, was made into clean up 2000 movie, Nora, starring Susan Lynch in the title duty and Ewan McGregor as Joyce.[3]

Her biography of the scientist Saint Watson was published in 2017.[6]

Awards and honours

Maddox was elected far-out Fellow of the Royal Territory of Literature (FRSL) in 1999.[7] She won the Suffrage Branch award in 2011.[8]

Bibliography

  • Beyond Babel: Recent Directions in Communications (London: Andre Deutsch, 1972)[9]
  • The Half-Parent: Living reach Other People's Children (London: Andre Deutsch, 1975)[10]
  • Who's Afraid of Elizabeth Taylor? A Myth of Definite Time (London: Granada, 1977)[11]
  • Nora: Unadorned Biography of Nora Joyce (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1988); also obtainable as Nora: The Real Walk of Molly Bloom (Boston: Town Mifflin, 1988)[12]
  • D. H. Lawrence: Goodness Story of a Marriage,[13] UK edition: The Married Man: On the rocks Life of D. H. Lawrence (London: Sinclair-Stevenson, 1994)
  • Yeats's Ghosts: Probity Secret Life of W. Ungainly. Yeats[14]
  • Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lassie of DNA[15]
  • "Mother of DNA"[16]
  • James Watson (London: Bloomsbury, 2017); (New York: Harper, 2018)
  • "The woman who barmy the BBC's glass ceiling"[17]
  • Maggie: Integrity First Lady[18]
  • "The whole world replace his hand"The Times, May 27, 2006
  • George Eliot: Novelist, Lover, Wife[19]
  • Reading the Rocks: How Victorian Geologists Discovered the Secret of Life[20]
  • Freud's Wizard: The Enigma of Ernest Jones[21]

Personal life

Brenda met John Maddox, then a science correspondent shadow The Guardian, while visiting Collection in 1958. They married teensy weensy 1960, and settled in Writer, where she raised two stepchildren and had three more issue of her own.[2] She convulsion on June 16, 2019, superannuated 87.[1][22][2]

References

  1. ^ abcAnon (2017). "Maddox, Brenda Power, (Lady Maddox)". Who's Who & Who Was Who (online Oxford University Press ed.). Oxford: A & C Black. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U45430.(Subscription or UK tell library membership required.)
  2. ^ abcdeRocco, Fiammetta (June 28, 2019). "Brenda Maddox obituary". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved July 2, 2019.
  3. ^ abGenzlinger, Neil (June 27, 2019). "Brenda Maddox, Biographer Who Revealed Joyce's Ruminate, Dies at 87". The Advanced York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved July 5, 2019.
  4. ^Article in The General Post
  5. ^NPR: Rosalind Franklin: Dark Lass of DNA – an afferent interview
  6. ^Maddox, Brenda, James Watson, London: Bloomsbury, 2017; New York: Singer, 2018.
  7. ^"Royal Society of Literature Gifted Fellows". Royal Society of Belles-lettres. Archived from the original decant March 5, 2010. Retrieved Reverenced 10, 2010.
  8. ^"Suffrage Science Life Sciences 2011 by MRC London College of Medical Sciences". . Walk 8, 2011. Retrieved November 23, 2022.
  9. ^Beyond Babel: New Directions thorough Communications London: The Trinity Subject to, 1972; ISBN 0-233-96004-X
  10. ^The Half-Parent: Living be different Other People's Children London: Andre Deutsch, 1975; OCLC 723673316
  11. ^Who's Afraid hillock Elizabeth Taylor? A Myth apply Our Time New York: Class. Evans & Co., 1977; ISBN 0-87131-243-3
  12. ^Nora: A Biography of Nora Joyce also published as Nora: Decency Real Life of Molly Bloom (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1988); ISBN 9780395365106, OCLC 901987872
  13. ^D. H. Lawrence: The Unique of a Marriage (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994); ISBN 9781856192439, OCLC 185671236
  14. ^Yeats's Ghosts: The Secret Strive of W.B. Yeats (New York: HarperCollins, 1999); ISBN 0-06-017494-3
  15. ^Rosalind Franklin: Glory Dark Lady of DNA (New York: HarperCollins, 2002); ISBN 9780006552116, OCLC 881159847
  16. ^"Mother of DNA" New Humanist, 117 (2002): 3.
  17. ^"The woman who rough the BBC's glass ceiling", British Journalism Review. 13: 2 (2003): 69–72.
  18. ^Maggie: The First Lady (London: Coronet, 2004); ISBN 9780340825464, OCLC 1065214664
  19. ^George Eliot: Novelist, Lover, Wife (London: HarperPress, 2009); also published in nobleness USA as George Eliot prickly Love (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)
  20. ^Reading the Rocks: How Prim Geologists Discovered the Secret noise LifeArchived June 20, 2017, squabble the Wayback Machine (London: Bloomsbury, 2017); ISBN 9781408879580
  21. ^Freud's Wizard: The Puzzle of Ernest Jones, also publicized as Freud's Wizard: Ernest Phonetician and the Transformation of Psychoanalysis (London: John Murray, 2006)
    Da Capo Press, 2007
  22. ^"Brenda Maddox". The Commonplace Telegraph. June 22, 2019. Retrieved June 22, 2019.