Brenda Maddox (1932–2019)

Author of Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA

19 Works 1,574 Members 42 Reviews

About the Author

Brenda Maddox is an award-winning biographer whose work has been translated into ten languages. Nora: A Biography of Nora Joyce, won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography, the Silver PEN Award, and the French Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger. Her life of D. H. Lawrence won the Whitbread show more Biography Award in 1974, and Yeats's Ghosts, on the married life of W. B. Yeats, was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize in 1998. She has been Home Affairs Editor for the Economist, has served as chairman of the Association of British Science Writers and is a member of the Royal Society's Science and Society Committee. She lives in London and Mid-Wales show less

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Works by Brenda Maddox

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Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA (2002) 611 copies, 13 reviews

Nora: The Real Life of Molly Bloom (1988) 391 copies, 8 reviews

D.H. Lawrence: The Story of a Marriage (1994) 151 copies, 1 review

Yeats's Ghosts: The Secret Life of W.B. Yeats (1999) 144 copies, 1 review

Reading the Rocks: How Victorian Geologists Discovered the Secret of Life (2017) 71 copies

George Eliot in Love (2009) 53 copies, 14 reviews

Freud's Wizard: Ernest Jones and the Transformation of Psychoanalysis (2006) 51 copies, 3 reviews

Maggie: The First Lady (2003) 23 copies, 1 review

Married and Gay: An Intimate Look at a Different Relationship (1982) 19 copies

Who's Afraid of Elizabeth Taylor? (1977) 18 copies

Nora [2000 film] (2002) — Writer — 10 copies, 1 review

The Half-parent (1975) 10 copies

Beyond Babel: New Directions in Communication (1972) 8 copies

The Pope and contraception : the diabolical doctrine (1991) 5 copies

The Marrying Kind: Homosexuality and Marriage (1982) 2 copies

Nora : La vérité sur les rapports de Nora et James Joyce (1990) 2 copies

Krimigeschichten. D. H. Lawrence und Frieda von Richthofen. (2003) 2 copies

Nora. Uma Biografia De Nora Joyce (Em Portuguese do Brasil) (1991) 2 copies

විවාහකයා : ඩී. එච්. ලෝරන්ස් (2019) 1 copy

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Other names: Murphy, Brenda (maiden name)
Birthdate: 1932-02-24
Date of death: 2019-06-16
Gender: female
Nationality: USA
Birthplace: Brockton, Bridgewater, Massachusetts, USA
Place of death: London, England, UK
Places of residence: Massachusetts, USA
London, England, UK
Mid-Wales, UK
Education: Harvard University (BA|1953|English literature)
London School of Economics
Occupations: journalist
author
biographer
Relationships: Maddox, John (husband)
Maddox, Bronwen (daughter)
Maddox, Bruno (son)
Organizations: Association of British Science Writers
Royal Society's Science and Society Committee
Awards and honors: Royal Society of Literature (Fellow, 1999)
Suffrage Science Award (2011)
Whitbread Biography Award (1974)
Agent: Caradoc King (AP Watt)
Short biography: Brenda Maddox, Lady Maddox FRSL is an American author, journalist, and biographer, who has lived in the UK since 1959.

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Nora : A Biography of Nora Joyce by Brenda Maddox

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BJMacauley | 7 other reviews | Sep 23, 2023 |

Nora, The Real Life of Molly Bloom by Brenda Maddox

Molly Bloom's life is more interesting than that of James Joyce.

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mykl-s | 7 other reviews | Jun 17, 2023 |

Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA by Brenda Maddox

This summer I had an urge to read something about Rosalind Franklin, the scientist who actually discovered the structure of DNA and died young at 37. I liked this biography but I was struck by how often the author quoted friends, colleagues, and associates who commented on Franklin's looks...she was "quite striking," "pretty." I guess it was the 1940s and '50s and that was how women were judged but I thought it was excessive. Now I want to read The Double Helix by James Watson.

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Dairyqueen84 | 12 other reviews | Mar 15, 2022 |

Nora : A Biography of Nora Joyce by Brenda Maddox

I'm pass my James Joyce phase. I will come back to this book though.

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RakishaBPL | 7 other reviews | Sep 24, 2021 |

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