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Also Known As	Dame Penelope Margaret Lively • Penelope Margaret Low
Born	March 17, 1933 (age 93) • Cairo • Egypt
Awards And Honors	National Book Award • Booker Prize (1987) • Costa Book Awards (1976)
Notable Works	“Astercote” • “City of the Mind” • “Family Album” • “Life in the Garden” • “Making It Up” • “Passing On” • “The Photograph” • “The Purple Swamp Hen, and Other Stories” • “The Road to Lichfield” • “Treasures of Time”