![]() ![]() ![]() She was fond of underrated, idiosyncratic writers with distinctive voices, like the novelist J. ![]() Outsiders in literature were close to her heart, too. She would say: ‘I am drawn to people who seem to have been born defeated or even profoundly lost.’ She was a humorous writer with a tragic sense of life. ![]() Her view of the world was that it divided into ‘exterminators’ and ‘exterminatees’. She wrote about the vulnerable and the unprivileged, children, women trying to cope on their own, gentle, muddled, unsuccessful men. She was drawn to unsettled characters who lived on the edges. When Penelope Fitzgerald unexpectedly won the Booker Prize with Offshore, in 1979, at the age of sixty-three, she said to her friends: ‘I knew I was an outsider.’ The people she wrote about in her novels and biographies were outsiders, too: misfits, romantic artists, hopeful failures, misunderstood lovers, orphans and oddities. V4.0220 Penelope Fitzgerald Preface by Hermione Lee, Advisory Editor Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available. Reprinted by arrangement with HarperCollins Publishersįor information about permission to reproduce selections from this book, write to or to Permissions, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 3 Park Avenue, 19th Floor, New York, New York 10016. Introduction copyright © 2014 by David Nichollsįirst published in Great Britain by Gerald Duckworth and Co., Ltd. ![]()
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