degree in 18th-century literature in 1985 for her thesis entitled "The popular fiction of eighteenth-century commercial circulating libraries". She worked for BBC radio for two years before attending University of Edinburgh, where she obtained a Ph.D. degree in history from Sussex University. She next went to journalism college in Cardiff and was an apprentice with the Portsmouth News for a year before gaining a place on an English literature degree course at the University of Sussex, where she switched to a history course. She was a "rebel" at Colston's Girls' School where she obtained a B grade in English and two E grades in History and Geography at A-level. When she was two years old, her family moved to Bristol, UK. Philippa Gregory was born on 9 January 1954 in Nairobi at the time it was the capital city of the Colony and Protectorate of Kenya (modern-day Republic of Kenya), the second daughter of Elaine (Wedd) and Arthur Percy Gregory, a radio operator and navigator for East African Airways. The best known of her works is The Other Boleyn Girl (2001), which in 2002 won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award from the Romantic Novelists' Association and has been adapted into two films.ĪudioFile magazine has called Gregory "the queen of British historical fiction". Philippa Gregory CBE (born 9 January 1954) is an English historical novelist who has been publishing since 1987. Recorded June 2012 from the BBC Radio 4 programme Bookclub
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