Editing Margaret Drabble (section)

{{Short description|English biographer, novelist and short story writer}}
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{{Infobox writer
 | image             = Margaret Drabble (2011).jpg
 | image_upright        = 1.23
 | caption           = Drabble in 2011
 | honorific_prefix  = Dame
 | name              = Margaret Drabble
 | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|DBE|FRSL}}
 | birth_date        = {{birth date and age|1939|6|5|df=yes}}
 | birth_place       = [[Sheffield]], West Riding of Yorkshire, England
 | education         = [[Newnham College]], [[University of Cambridge]]
 | occupation        = {{flatlist|
* Biographer
* novelist
* short story writer
 }}
 | yearsactive       = 1963–
 | notableworks = {{unbulleted list|''[[A Summer Bird-Cage]]''|''[[The Garrick Year]]''|''[[The Millstone (novel)|The Millstone]]''|''[[Jerusalem the Golden]]''|''[[The Needle's Eye (novel)|The Needle's Eye]]''}}
 | awards       = {{awards|[[John Llewellyn Rhys Prize|John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize]]|1966}} {{awards|[[James Tait Black Memorial Prize]]|1967}} {{awards|''[[The Yorkshire Post]]'' Book Award (Finest Fiction)|1972}} {{awards|[[American Academy of Arts and Letters]] [[E. M. Forster Award]]|1973}} {{awards|[[Golden PEN Award]]|2011}}
 | spouses           = {{ubl
 | {{marriage|[[Clive Swift]]|1960|1975|reason=divorced}}
 | {{marriage|[[Michael Holroyd]]|1982}}
 }}
 | relatives  = [[A. S. Byatt]] (sister)
 | children          = {{ubl
 | [[Adam Swift]]
 | [[Rebecca Swift]]
 | [[Joe Swift]]
 }}
}}
'''Dame Margaret Drabble, Lady Holroyd''', {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|DBE|FRSL}} (born 5 June 1939)<ref name="British Council: Literature"/> is an English biographer, novelist and short story writer.

Drabble's books include ''[[The Millstone (novel)|The Millstone]]'' (1965), which won the following year's [[John Llewellyn Rhys Prize|John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize]], and ''[[Jerusalem the Golden]]'', which won the 1967 [[James Tait Black Memorial Prize]]. She was honoured by the [[University of Cambridge]] in 2006, having earlier received awards from numerous [[Red brick university|redbrick]] (e.g. [[University of Sheffield|Sheffield]], [[University of Hull|Hull]], [[University of Manchester|Manchester]],) and [[Plate glass university|plateglass universities]] (such as [[University of Bradford|Bradford]], [[Keele University|Keele]], [[University of East Anglia|East Anglia]] and [[University of York|York]]). She received the [[American Academy of Arts and Letters]] [[E. M. Forster Award]] in 1973.

Drabble also wrote biographies of [[Arnold Bennett]] and [[Angus Wilson]] and edited two editions of ''[[The Oxford Companion to English Literature]]'' and a book on [[Thomas Hardy]].