Penelope Lively was born in Cairo, Egypt and spent her
childhood there. She came to England at the age of twelve, in 1945, and
went to boarding school in Sussex. She subsequently read Modern History
at St. Anne's College, Oxford. In 1957 she married Jack Lively (who died
in 1998). They had two children, Josephine and Adam. Jack Lively's academic
career took the family from Swansea to Sussex and Oxford, and eventually
to Warwick University, where he was Professor of Politics. Penelope Lively
now has six grandchildren and lives in London.
TREASURES OF TIME, Arts Council National Book Award
NOTHING MISSING BUT THE SAMOVAR, Southern Arts Literature Prize
THE ROAD TO LICHFIELD, shortlisted for the Booker Prize
ACCORDING TO MARK, shortlisted for the Booker Prize
THE GHOST OF THOMAS KEMPE, Carnegie Medal
A STITCH IN TIME, Whitbread Award
MOON TIGER, Booker Prize, shortlisted for the Whitbread Award
FAMILY ALBUM, shortlisted for the Costa Prize
Many of Penelope Lively's books are translated into several foreign languages.
Short stories have appeared in Encounter, The Literary Review, Good Housekeeping,
Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Options, The Observer, Woman's Own and other magazines
including foreign periodicals. A number have also been read on the BBC and
on Australian Radio.
Penelope Lively has reviewed regularly and written articles for Encounter,
the Sunday and the Daily Telegraph, the Independent, the Times, the Sunday
Times, the Observer, the New York Times, Books and Bookmen, The Literary
Review, The Times Educational Supplement, the Standard and other journals
and newspapers. She has also written radio and TV scripts; and acted as
presenter for a Radio 4 programme on children's literature.
Penelope lively is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and a member
of PEN and the Society of Authors, of which she is a former chairman. She
is a former member of the Arts Council Literature Panel and of the Board
of the British Library. She has been a member of the Board of the British
Council and of the Council of Goldsmiths College. Awarded the OBE in 1989,
CBE in 2002, and DBE in 2012, Hon. D.Litt., Tufts University, Mass., 1992, Hon. D.Litt.
Warwick University 1998
Fiction
THE ROAD TO LICHFIELD, 1977
NOTHING MISSING BUT THE SAMOVAR, and other stories, 1978
TREASURES OF TIME, 1979
JUDGEMENT DAY, 1980
NEXT TO NATURE, ART, 1982
PERFECT HAPPINESS, 1983
CORRUPTION, and other stories, 1984
ACCORDING TO MARK, 1984
PACK OF CARDS, STORIES 1978-86, 1986
MOON TIGER, 1987
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PASSING ON, 1989
CITY OF THE MIND, 1991
CLEOPATRA'S SISTER, 1993
HEAT WAVE, 1996
SPIDERWEB, 1998
THE PHOTOGRAPH, 2003
MAKING IT UP, 2005
CONSEQUENCES, 2007
FAMILY ALBUM, 2009
HOW IT ALL BEGAN, 2011 |
Non -fiction
| The PRESENCE OF THE PAST:
An introduction to landscape history, 1976 |
OLEANDER, JACARANDA: A CHILDHOOD
PERCEIVED, 1994
A HOUSE UNLOCKED, 2001 |
Children's books
ASTERCOTE, 1970
THE WHISPERING KNIGHTS, 1971
THE WILD HUNT OF HAGWORTHY, 1971
THE DRIFTWAY, 1972
THE GHOST OF THOMAS KEMPE, 1973
THE HOUSE IN NORHAM GARDENS, 1974
GOING BACK, 1975
A STITCH IN TIME, 1976
THE VOYAGE OF QV66, 1978
THE REVENGE OF SAMUEL STOKES, 1981
THE STAINED GLASS WINDOW, 1976
BOY WITHOUT A NAME, 1975
FANNY'S SISTER, 1976
FANNY AND THE MONSTERS, 1978
FANNY AND THE BATTLE OF POTTER'S PIECE, 1980 |
FANNY AND THE
MONSTERS (three Fanny stories), 1983
UNINVITED GHOSTS and other stories, 1984
DRAGON TROUBLE, 1984
DEBBIE AND THE LITTLE DEVIL, 1987
A HOUSE INSIDE OUT, 1987
PRINCESS BY MISTAKE, 1993
JUDY AND THE MARTIAN, 1993
THE CAT, THE CROW AND THE BANYAN TREE, 1 994
GOOD NIGHT, SLEEP TIGHT, 1995
TWO BEARS AND JOE, 1995
STAYING WITH GRANDPA, 1995
A MARTIAN COMES TO STAY, 1995
LOST DOG, 1996
ONE, TWO, THREE . . . JUMP, 1998
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To Ivy Compton-Burnett: Manservant and Maidservant, Oxford University Press 1987
To Ivy Compton-Burnett: A Father and his Fate, Oxford University Press 1984
To Edith Wharton: The Age of Innocence, Virago 1988
To Lewis Carroll: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Everyman 1993
To Willa Cather: My Antonia, Everyman 1996
To The Mythical Quest, The British Library 1996
To Ahdaf Soueif: The Map of Love, Bloomsbury 2007
To Carol Shields: The Stone Diaries, Penguin Classics (USA) 2008
To Book Trade Lives, British Library 2008
To Priscilla Napier: A Late Beginner, Slightly Foxed Editions 2009
To Rosemary Sutcliffe: The Lantern Bearers, The Folio Society 2011
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