![]() ![]() ![]() She won the Booker (for Offshore), and became the first non-American to win the National Book Critics' Circle award (for The Blue Flower, which many consider her masterpiece). Despite a late start (she began writing her first novel when she was almost 60, composing it as a diversion for her dying husband), she gained immense popular and critical acclaim during the last 20 years of her life. Fitzgerald was a wonderful writer, and since her death in 2000 her reputation has continued to soar. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |