Penelope Fitzgerald

Penelope Mary Fitzgerald was a Booker Prize-winning novelist, poet, essayist and biographer from Lincoln, England. In 2008 The Times listed her among "the 50 greatest British writers since 1945". The Observer in 2012 placed her final novel, The Blue Flower, among "the ten best historical novels". A.S. Byatt called her, "Jane Austen’s nearest heir for precision and invention."

17 December 1916

Born on the same birth day (17 December): Arthur Fiedler • Bob Stinson • Chelsea Manning • Chris Matthews • Dominic Lawson • Eknath Easwaran • Jerry Hsu • Josh Barfield • Kujō Yoritsugu • Marilyn Beck • Mick Quinn • Muhammadu Buhari • Naiktha Bains • Pat Hill • Paul Dobson (footballer) • Paul Tracy • Quinton de Kock • Ryan Hunter-Reay • Sam Barry • Sarah Paulson

Born in the same month (December 1916): Buddy Cole (musician) • Cathy Lewis • Dino Risi • Elena Garro • Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann • Hilary Koprowski • Howard Finster • Jerome Beatty Jr. • Kristján Eldjárn • Miguel Arraes • Pérez Prado • Roy Ward Baker • Shirley Jackson • Wan Li