Philippa Gregory
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Philippa Gregory at the 2011 Texas Book Festival.
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| Born | Philippa Gregory 9 January 1954 Nairobi, Kenya |
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| Pen name | Philippa Gregory | ||
| Occupation | Novelist | ||
| Language | English | ||
| Nationality | English | ||
| Ethnicity | English | ||
| Period | 1987–present | ||
| Genre | Historical fiction, romance, fantasy | ||
| Notable awards | RoNA Award | ||
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| Children | Two children Four step-children |
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Philippa Gregory (born 9 January 1954) is an English historical novelist who has been writing since 1987. The best known of her works is The Other Boleyn Girl (2001), which in 2002 won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award from the Romantic Novelists' Association and has been adapted into two separate films.
AudioFile magazine has called Gregory "the queen of British historical fiction."
Philippa Gregory was born on 9 January 1954 in Nairobi, Kenya, the second daughter of Elaine (Wedd) and Arthur Percy Gregory, a radio operator and navigator for East African Airways. When she was two years old, her family moved to Bristol, England. She is not related to novelist, Susanna Gregory.
She was a "rebel" at Colston's Girls' School where she obtained a B grade in English and two E grades in History and Geography at A-level. She then went to journalism college in Cardiff and spent a year as an apprentice with the Portsmouth News before she managed to gain a place on an English literature degree course at the University of Sussex, where she switched to a history course. She worked in BBC radio for two years before attending the University of Edinburgh, where she earned her doctorate in 18th-century literature. Gregory has taught at the University of Durham, University of Teesside, and the Open University, and was made a Fellow of Kingston University in 1994.
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