Author

Books by Penelope Fitzgerald

Penelope Fitzgerald (1916–2000) was a British novelist who published her first novel at sixty and her final novel, The Blue Flower, at seventy-nine. Her earlier books drew on personal experience — The Bookshop (1978) on a failed bookshop she ran, Offshore (1979), which won the Booker Prize, on life on a houseboat. Her late novels, including Innocence, The Gate of Angels, and The Beginning of Spring, are more formally ambitious historical fictions. She is widely regarded as one of the finest British prose stylists of the twentieth century, though she remained little-known outside literary circles for most of her career.