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Penelope Fitzgerald

  • Whistling in the Dark: Memory and Culture in Wartime London by Jean Freedman

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Penelope Fitzgerald, a frequent and much-missed contributor to the London Review, died in 2000. She wrote three biographies and ten works of fiction, all in print.

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