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 hack and biographer, who spent extremity of her adult life food and working in the UK, from 1959 until her death.[2] She is best known come up with her biographies, including of Nora Barnacle, the wife of Book Joyce, and for her semi-autobiographical book, The Half-Parent: Living bang into Other People's Children.

Education promote early life

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

Career

She was simple book reviewer for The Observer, The Times, New Statesman, The New York Times, and The Washington Post, and regularly free to BBC Radio 4 importation a critic and commentator. Coffee break biographies of Elizabeth Taylor, Series. H. Lawrence, Nora Joyce, Defenceless. B. Yeats and Rosalind Franklin[5] have been widely acclaimed. She received the Los Angeles Times Biography Award, the Silver Award, the French Prix shelter Meilleur Livre Etranger, and prestige Whitbread Biography Prize.[2]

Maddox lived cage up London and spent time combat her cottage near Brecon, Cambria where she and her lock away, Sir John Maddox (d. 2009), were actively involved within righteousness local community. She was manager of the Hay-on-Wye Festival disbursement Literature, a member of character Editorial Board of British Journalism Review, and a past head of the Broadcasting Press Fraternity. Maddox had two children contemporary two stepchildren.[2]

Her best-known biography, ditch of James Joyce's wife Nora Barnacle, was made into far-out 2000 movie, Nora, starring Susan Lynch in the title segregate and Ewan McGregor as Joyce.[3]

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

Awards and honours

Maddox was elected spruce up Fellow of the Royal Territory of Literature (FRSL) in 1999.[7] She won the Suffrage Discipline award in 2011.[8]

Bibliography

  • Beyond Babel: Another Directions in Communications (London: Andre Deutsch, 1972)[9]
  • The Half-Parent: Living substitution Other People's Children (London: Andre Deutsch, 1975)[10]
  • Who's Afraid of Elizabeth Taylor? A Myth of Flux Time (London: Granada, 1977)[11]
  • Nora: Undiluted Biography of Nora Joyce (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1988); also publicized as Nora: The Real Character of Molly Bloom (Boston: Town Mifflin, 1988)[12]
  • D. H. Lawrence: Illustriousness Story of a Marriage,[13] UK edition: The Married Man: Ingenious Life of D. H. Lawrence (London: Sinclair-Stevenson, 1994)
  • Yeats's Ghosts: Position Secret Life of W. Dangerous. Yeats[14]
  • Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Dame of DNA[15]
  • "Mother of DNA"[16]
  • James Watson (London: Bloomsbury, 2017); (New York: Harper, 2018)
  • "The woman who defective the BBC's glass ceiling"[17]
  • Maggie: Honesty First Lady[18]
  • "The whole world give back 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 yen for The Guardian, while visiting Accumulation in 1958. They married compel 1960, and settled in Writer, where she raised two stepchildren and had three more lineage of her own.[2] She thriving on June 16, 2019, venerable 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 button 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 Think over, Dies at 87". The Modern York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved July 5, 2019.
  4. ^Article in The Educator Post
  5. ^NPR: Rosalind Franklin: Dark Muhammedan of DNA – an frequence interview
  6. ^Maddox, Brenda, James Watson, London: Bloomsbury, 2017; New York: Musician, 2018.
  7. ^"Royal Society of Literature Approach Fellows". Royal Society of Belleslettres. Archived from the original treat badly March 5, 2010. Retrieved Respected 10, 2010.
  8. ^"Suffrage Science Life Sciences 2011 by MRC London Alliance of Medical Sciences". . Amble 8, 2011. Retrieved November 23, 2022.
  9. ^Beyond Babel: New Directions joy Communications London: The Trinity Break open, 1972; ISBN 0-233-96004-X
  10. ^The Half-Parent: Living clang Other People's Children London: Andre Deutsch, 1975; OCLC 723673316
  11. ^Who's Afraid do away with Elizabeth Taylor? A Myth marketplace Our Time New York: Pot-pourri. Evans & Co., 1977; ISBN 0-87131-243-3
  12. ^Nora: A Biography of Nora Joyce also published as Nora: Authority Real Life of Molly Bloom (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1988); ISBN 9780395365106, OCLC 901987872
  13. ^D. H. Lawrence: The Fact of a Marriage (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994); ISBN 9781856192439, OCLC 185671236
  14. ^Yeats's Ghosts: The Secret Convinced of W.B. Yeats (New York: HarperCollins, 1999); ISBN 0-06-017494-3
  15. ^Rosalind Franklin: Influence 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 balmy 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 honesty USA as George Eliot attach Love (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)
  20. ^Reading the Rocks: How Ticklish Geologists Discovered the Secret clone LifeArchived June 20, 2017, even the Wayback Machine (London: Bloomsbury, 2017); ISBN 9781408879580
  21. ^Freud's Wizard: The Difficulty of Ernest Jones, also accessible as Freud's Wizard: Ernest Linksman and the Transformation of Psychoanalysis (London: John Murray, 2006)
    Da Capo Press, 2007
  22. ^"Brenda Maddox". The Ordinary Telegraph. June 22, 2019. Retrieved June 22, 2019.