FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1965, Margaret Drabble’s slim third novel tells the story of a single woman who gets pregnant and decides to keep the baby and raise it on her own. But to see this book as primarily ...
Kevin Fagan was the youngest syndicated cartoonist in the country when he introduced the comic strip Drabble in 1979; the Sun-Times quickly picked it up and I’ve been reading it ever since. For years ...
Margaret Drabble was named a dame of the British Empire in 2008 for her contribution to contemporary English literature. Her 17 novels have mirrored the changing lives of women over the past 50 years.
Seven Park Place chef William Drabble, who in 2023 lost his Michelin Star after 24 years holding one, is to open a new restaurant inspired by Queen Victoria’s head chef. Drabble’s new restaurant, ...
The presence of “drab” in Margaret Drabble’s name is at times all too appropriate. No foul mood, no patch of grey London weather, no bit of street detritus (whether human or nonhuman) goes unmentioned ...
When I think of the writers I worshiped when I was starting out in life, I always think of Margaret Drabble. She was 20 years older than I, but the serious, hip, intellectual British novelist whose ...