Brenda, Lady MaddoxFRSL (née Murphy; February 24, 1932 – June 16, 2019)[1] was an American writer and biographer, who spent most of her adult life living and working in the UK, from 1959 until her death.[2] She is best known for her biographies, including of Nora Barnacle, the wife of James Joyce, and for her semi-autobiographical book, The Half-Parent: Living with Other People's Children.
Her best-known biography, that of James Joyce's wife Nora Barnacle, was made into a 2000 movie, Nora, starring Susan Lynch in the title role and Ewan McGregor as Joyce.[3]
Her biography of the scientist James Watson was published in 2017.[6]
Beyond Babel: New Directions in Communications (London: Andre Deutsch, 1972)[9]
The Half-Parent: Living with Other People's Children (London: Andre Deutsch, 1975)[10]
Who's Afraid of Elizabeth Taylor? A Myth of Our Time (London: Granada, 1977)[11]
Nora: A Biography of Nora Joyce (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1988); also published as Nora: The Real Life of Molly Bloom (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1988)[12]
D.H. Lawrence: The Story of a Marriage,[13] UK edition: The Married Man: A Life of D. H. Lawrence (London: Sinclair-Stevenson, 1994)
Brenda met John Maddox, then a science correspondent for The Guardian, while visiting Europe in 1958. They married in 1960, and settled in London, where she raised two stepchildren and had three more children of her own.[2] She died on June 16, 2019, aged 87.[1][22][2]
^Beyond Babel: New Directions in Communications London: The Trinity Press, 1972; ISBN0-233-96004-X
^The Half-Parent: Living with Other People's Children London: Andre Deutsch, 1975; OCLC723673316
^Who's Afraid of Elizabeth Taylor? A Myth of Our Time New York: M. Evans & Co., 1977; ISBN0-87131-243-3
^Nora: A Biography of Nora Joyce also published as Nora: The Real Life of Molly Bloom (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1988); ISBN9780395365106, OCLC901987872
^George Eliot: Novelist, Lover, Wife (London: HarperPress, 2009); also published in the USA as George Eliot in Love (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)
^Freud's Wizard: The Enigma of Ernest Jones, also published as Freud's Wizard: Ernest Jones and the Transformation of Psychoanalysis (London: John Murray, 2006) Da Capo Press, 2007
^"Brenda Maddox". The Daily Telegraph. June 22, 2019. Retrieved June 22, 2019.