Philippa Gregory

Birth Name:

Philippa Gregory

Birth Place:

Nairobi, Kenya

Profession

Writer, Producer

The Other Boleyn Girl won the 2002 Parker Pen Novel of the Year Award and the Romantic Times Fictional Biography Award
Was nominated for a BAFTA TV Award for Best Drama Serial for "A Respectable Trade" in 1999
Founded the charity Gardens for The Gambia, which raises funds for women and children and created The Gambia's only agricultural college
Graduated from the University of Sussex with a degree in History and earned her doctorate in 18th-Century Literature from the University of Edinburgh
Her first novel, "Wideacre," was published in 1987 and written while she was completing her Ph․D․ in 18th Century Literature
Started out as a reporter for Portsmouth News and a journalist and producer for BBC Radio
Quote: "Finding and telling the true stories of these women is like a piece of detective work․ I have to see the traces of 500-year-old conspiracies, and speculate about whispers from lips that have been dust for centuries․"
Quote: "For me, history answers all the great questions of life․ It's like discovering faith․ It explains everything․"
Best known as the author of "The Other Boleyn Girl" and many other bestselling historical fiction and romance novels
Serves as the executive producer of the TV series "The White Queen," which is based on her novel by the same name

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