Margaret Forster

Margaret Forster (born 1938) is a British author. She was born in Carlisle, England, and has worked as a novelist, biographer and freelance literary critic, contributing regularly to book programmes on television, to Radio 4 and various newpapers and magazines.

She was the author of many successful novels, including Lady's Maid, Diary of an Ordinary Woman, Have the Men Had Enough? and The Memory Box, two memoirs, Hidden Lives and Precious Lives, and several acclaimed biographies, most recently Good Wives.

Precious Lives won the J. R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography in 1999