Brenda Maddox

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Brenda Maddox is an American author, journalist, and biographer. Born in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, she graduated Harvard University with a degree in English literature. She is a book reviewer for The Observer, The Times, New Statesman, The New York Times, and The Washington Post, and regularly contributes to BBC Radio 4 as a critic and commentator. Her biographies of Elizabeth Taylor, D. H. Lawrence, Nora Joyce, W. B. Yeats and Rosalind Franklin have been widely acclaimed. She has won the Los Angeles Times Biography Award, the Silver PEN Award, the French Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger, and the Whitbread Biography Prize. Brenda lives in London and spends time at her cottage near Brecon, Wales where she and her husband, Sir John Maddox, are actively involved within the local community. She is vice-president of the Hay-on-Wye Festival of Literature, member of the Editorial Board of British Journalism Review, and a past chairman of the Broadcasting Press Guild. Brenda has two children and two stepchildren.

[edit] Bibliography

• Maddox, B. (1977) Who's Afraid of Elizabeth Taylor? A Myth of Our Time New York: M. Evans & Co.
• Maddox, B. (1994) D.H. Lawrence: The Story of a Marriage New York: Simon & Schuster. 624 pp.
• Maddox, B. (1999) Yeats's Ghosts: The Secret Life of W.B. Yeats New York: Harper Collins. 474 pp.
• Maddox, B. (2000) Nora: The Real Life of Molly Bloom New York: Mariner Books. 512 pp.
• Maddox, B. (2002) Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA New York: Harper Collins. 400 pp.
• Maddox, B. (2002) "Mother of DNA" New Humanist 117 (3):
• Maddox, B. (2002) "The woman who cracked the BBC's glass ceiling" British Journalism Review. 13 (2): 69-72.
• Maddox, B. (2003) Maggie: The Personal Story of a Public Life New York: Hodder & Stoughton.
• Maddox, B. (2006) "The whole world in his hand" The Times. (May 27).

[edit] External link

• NPR: Rosalind Franklin: Dark Lady of DNA - an audio interview