Margaret Forster

Margaret Forster
Born	(1938-05-25)25 May 1938 Carlisle, England
Died	8 February 2016(2016-02-08) (aged 77) London, England
Occupation	Novelist biographer literary critic
Language	English
Genre	Fiction
Years active	1961−2015
Spouse	Hunter Davies ​ (m. 1960)​

Margaret Forster (25 May 1938 – 8 February 2016) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, historian and critic, best known for the 1965 novel Georgy Girl, made into a successful film of the same name, which inspired a hit song by The Seekers. Other successes were a 2003 novel, Diary of an Ordinary Woman, biographies of Daphne du Maurier and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and her memoirs Hidden Lives and Precious Lives.