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Philippa Gregory's most famous novel is The Other Boleyn Girl, published in 2001. It won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award from the Romantic Novelists' Association in 2002 and has been adapted into two films, including a 2008 Miramax release starring Eric Bana, Natalie Portman, and Scarlett Johansson.
Philippa Gregory was born on the 9th of January 1954 in Nairobi, which was then the capital of the Colony and Protectorate of Kenya. Her family moved to Bristol, UK, when she was two years old.
Philippa Gregory holds a B.A. in history from the University of Sussex, awarded in 1982, and a Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh, awarded in 1985. Her doctoral thesis examined the popular fiction sold through 18th-century commercial circulating libraries.
Gardens for The Gambia is a charity Gregory established in 1993 after visiting The Gambia to research her novel A Respectable Trade. The charity has dug close to 200 low-technology wells in school and community gardens that provide water for irrigating food crops and funding school equipment.
Critics have accused Gregory of blurring the line between historical fact and artistic license while claiming meticulous accuracy. Historian Susan Bordo called this approach self-deceptive, and historian David Loades said Gregory's The Other Boleyn Girl would have been safer had she claimed to be writing outright fiction.
Normal Women, published in 2023, traces the lives of women in England from the Norman Conquest to the modern day across 900 years. It became a Sunday Times bestseller, was shortlisted for a Parliamentary Book Award in 2023, and was nominated for best non-fiction narrative at the British Book Awards in 2024.