Penelpe lively biography

Penelope Lively--Biography

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Penelope Lively was born in Cairo, Egypt, March 17, 1933. She was sent to England at age 12 to attend school and graduated from St. Anne's College in 1956.

Prior to age twelve she was educated at home with books that were sent from England. She remembers moving from Egypt, "I was then twelve, and I was being shipped to what was called home but as far as I was concerned was not home at all -- a mysterious, grey, wet place where it rained all the time...I can actually remember wading through snow drifts [indoors] because the snow came in through the broken windows- this for a little girl who'd been brought up in Africa." She still lives in England today with her husband Jack, a professor of politics at the University of West Warwick and two children.

Penelope lively biography

Her son, Adam, published his first novel at 26, and her daughter, Josephine is an oboist with the London Philharmonic.

Lively began writing prolifically in 1970. Her work is genera