MD
's father, barrister John Frederick Drabble
, also attended Cambridge
, and served in the RAF
during the second world war. In 1945, newly demobbed, he stood as Labour
candidate for the Tory seat...
Family and Intimate relationships
A. S. Byatt
ASB
's father, barrister John Frederick Drabble
, was also a Cambridge
graduate. He began writing novels in his retirement. He died in 1982. ASB
grew up in an intellectual environment; her parents valued art...