Margaret Forster (25 May 1938 – 8 February 2016) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, historian and critic, best known for a 1965 novel, Georgy Girl, made into a successful film of the same name. It inspired a hit song by The Seekers. Other successes were a 2003 novel, Diary of an Ordinary Woman, biographies of Daphne du Maurier and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and her memoirs: Hidden Lives and Precious Lives.
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25 May 1938 Carlisle, England, United Kingdom
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Died |
8 February 2016 (aged 77) London, England, United Kingdom
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Zodiac | Gemini |
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