Brenda, Lady MaddoxFRSL (née Murphy; February 24, 1932 – June 16, 2019)[1] was an American writer and biographer, who spent most of her adult life living and working in the UK, from 1959 until her death.[2] She is best known for her biographies, including ofNora Barnacle, the wife ofJames Joyce, and for her semi-autobiographical book,The Half-Parent: Living with Other People's Children.
Her best-known biography, that of James Joyce's wife Nora Barnacle, was made into a 2000 movie,Nora, starringSusan Lynch in the title role andEwan McGregor as Joyce.[3]
Her biography of the scientistJames Watson was published in 2017.[6]
Nora: A Biography of Nora Joyce (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1988); also published asNora: The Real Life of Molly Bloom (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1988)[12]
D. H. Lawrence: The Story of a Marriage,[13] UK edition:The Married Man: A Life of D. H. Lawrence (London: Sinclair-Stevenson, 1994)
Brenda metJohn Maddox, then a science correspondent forThe Guardian, while visiting Europe in 1958. They married in 1960, and settled in London, where she raised two stepchildren and had three more children of her own.[2] She died on June 16, 2019, aged 87.[1][22][2]
^George Eliot: Novelist, Lover, Wife (London: HarperPress, 2009); also published in the USA asGeorge Eliot in Love (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)
^Freud's Wizard: The Enigma of Ernest Jones, also published asFreud's Wizard: Ernest Jones and the Transformation of Psychoanalysis (London: John Murray, 2006) Da Capo Press, 2007
^"Brenda Maddox".The Daily Telegraph. June 22, 2019. RetrievedJune 22, 2019.
