“I
like to do the research of history and the creativity of writing fiction. I am
creating this thing which I think is twice as difficult as writing either
history or fiction.” – Philippa Gregory
Born on this date in 1954, Gregory
is the English historical novelist best known for her award-winning novels (and
cinematic pieces) The Other Boleyn Girl and The White Queen.
While she has a Ph.D. in 18th century literature and has
written novels set in several different historical periods, her primary focus
has been on the 16th century and the Tudors.
Gregory said she sometimes feels
that her genre choice 
isn't highly regarded, but she likes writing it and has
drawn a devoted following for her many works (over 70 so far). She also is a frequent contributor to
magazines and newspapers with her short stories, features and reviews, and a
regular on the BBC where she actually started her writing career after studying
at a journalism school. But it is in
historical fiction that she has immersed herself.
“I love reading and I love
thinking,” she said. “The reason that I
love my books so much is that in order to write them I have to read and to
think for years at a time about the same period of time.”
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