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Penelope Mortimer (1918—1999) novelist Quick Reference (1918–99), novelist, whose works, with their emphasis on frankness about female experience, contributed to the development of the women's novel in the 1960s. They include The Pumpkin Eater (1962), The House (1971), Long Distance (1974), and The Handyman (1983). From: ...
Penelope Mortimer (1918–1999) was the author of nine novels; one collection of short stories; two volumes of memoir, the Whitbread Prize-winning About Time and About Time Too; and a biography of the Queen Mother.Her screenwriting credits include the script for Otto Preminger’s Bunny Lake is Missing (1964), which she co-wrote with her then husband John Mortimer.
Biografía de Penelope Mortimer. Escritora y periodista galesa, Penelope Mortimer trabajó para medios como The New Yorker, el Daily Mail, The Observer o The Sunday Times.En lo literario, publicó varias novelas, antologías y biografías. En 1979 resultó ganadora del Premio Whitbread.Su novela más conocida es El devorador de calabazas, que fue adaptada al cine con gran éxito.
In this extraordinary, semi-autobiographical novel, Penelope Mortimer depicts a married woman's breakdown in 1960s London. With three husbands in her past, one in her present and a numberless army of children, Mrs Armitage is astonished to find herself collapsing one day in Harrods. Strange, unsettling and shot through with black comedy, this ...
1 de ene. de 2001 · Penelope had approached her subject as somebody in the public eye, whose career might as well be recorded as if she were a normal human being." She wrote two volumes of autobiography, About Time: An Aspect of Autobiography, covering her life until 1939, appeared in 1979 and won the Whitbread Prize, and About Time Too: 1940–78 in 1993.
23 de oct. de 1999 · Mortimer, who died of cancer in London at age 81 on Tuesday, had a tortured childhood and a tense adulthood: She was sexually abused by her father and had a remote mother. She had six children by ...
The Pumpkin Eater, Penelope Mortimer's outstanding semi-autobiographical novel about the mother of a large family and wife to a serially unfaithful husband, has been seen as an early feminist trailblazer (its author tagged as one of the 'Angry Young Women'). Harold Pinter wrote the screenplay for th
