Maureen Duffy

MD is known primarily a novelist, in which capacity much of her work blends elements from history, biography, autobiography, or science fiction. She has also produced plays, poems, and scholarly works. By the early twenty-first century her output was said to total twenty-eight prose works (fiction and non-fiction), poetry collections, and plays.
Platt, Edward. “25 Years fighting for writers’ rights”. ALCS News, No. 21, pp. 4 - 5.
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MD writes often of primal bonds, of love and sexual desire, of the disadvantaged and marginalised, of gender identity and gender politics.
Black and white, half-length photograph of Maureen Duffy, her head slightly on one side and smiling. She wears a dark pullover with a striped shirt; her grey hair is in a page-boy cut with a fringe.
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Milestones

21 October 1933
Maureen Duffy was born at Worthing in Sussex, her mother's only child.
Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research, 1981.
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Who’s Who. Adam and Charles Black, 1849.
1962
MD published a novel, That's How It Was, which, as its title suggests, is semi-autobiographical.
Duffy, Maureen. That’s How It Was. Virago, 1983.
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Biography

Birth and Background

21 October 1933
Maureen Duffy was born at Worthing in Sussex, her mother's only child.
Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research, 1981.
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Who’s Who. Adam and Charles Black, 1849.