Maureen Duffy
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Maureen Duffy (born 1933) is a novelist, poet, playwright, nonfiction author and activist.
She was born in Worthing, Sussex, but her family came from Stratford in East London and she moved there at the age of 14 when her mother died. She took a degree at King's College, London and taught in Naples and London. She won her first poetry prize at the age of 17, with a poem printed in Adam magazine; soon followed by publication in |The Listener and elsewhere.[1] She later edited a poetry magazine called the sixties (1960-61).
References
- ↑ British Library. "Maureen Duffy interviewed by Sarah O’Reilly, Authors’ Lives, 2007-2009". British Library Sound & Moving Image Catalogue reference C1279/03: Track 6 21.01.08.
