Short answers, pulled from the story.
Philippa Gregory was born on the 9th of January 1954 in Nairobi, the capital of the Colony and Protectorate of Kenya. Her father worked as a radio operator and navigator for East African Airways while her mother managed the household.
Philippa Gregory earned a B.A. degree in 1982 from the University of Sussex and a Ph.D. degree in 18th-century literature in 1885 from the University of Edinburgh. She also became a fellow of Kingston University in 1994 after teaching at the University of Durham, the University of Teesside, and the Open University.
The Other Boleyn Girl was published in 2001 and catapulted Philippa Gregory to international fame. The book won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award from the Romantic Novelists' Association in 2002 and was adapted into two films.
Philippa Gregory established Gardens for The Gambia in 1993 while researching her book A Respectable Trade. The charity has dug almost 200 low technology wells and piloted a successful bee-keeping scheme to support the region.
Philippa Gregory was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2021 Birthday Honours for services to literature and to charity in the UK and the Gambia.
Philippa Gregory published Normal Women in 2023, a Sunday Times bestselling non-fiction book on the lives of women in England for 900 years. The book was shortlisted for a Parliamentary Book Award in 2023 and won best non-fiction narrative at the British Book Awards in 2024.