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Philippa Gregory
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Philippa Gregory

Philippa Gregory is the author of several bestselling novels, including The Other Boleyn Girl, and is a recognized authority on women’s history. She studied history at the University of Sussex and received a Ph.D. at the University of Edinburgh.... Read full bio

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Q. What is your motto or maxim?
A. Walk Home.
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My life in 8 words: "Diverse, entertaining, joyful, complex, busy, fulfilled, interesting, loving, integrated"
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    1. Philippa Gregory on THE LADY OF THE RIVERS
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    2. The World of Philippa Gregory
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    3. THE RED QUEEN book trailer
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    4. Other Boleyn Girl Trailer
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    5. Philippa Gregory Reads from The Red Queen
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    6. The Women of the Cousins' War
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    7. The White Queen: Excerpt 3
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    8. The White Queen: Excerpt 1
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    9. Philippa Gregory Trailer
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    13. The Plantagenets
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Philippa Gregory Revealed

Q. What is your motto or maxim? A. Walk Home. Q. If you could eat only one thing for the rest of your days, what would it be? A. Porridge and fresh fruit Q. What is your biggest pet peeve? A. I hate not being able to work modern technology. Q. What is your favorite occupation, when you’re not writing? A. I love walking, gardening, farming, reading, skiing, holidaying, being with my children, talking to my husband. I like doing so many other things it is amazing I get any work done at all. Q. Who is your favorite fictional hero? A. I like Dorothea in Middlemarch. Learn more about Philippa Gregory

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Media Bistro, February 3, 2012
...Magazine Award). In fall 2011, Simon & Schuster Children?s Division made a similar acquisition with historical romance author Philippa Gregory. Gregory, best known for her adult titles including The Other Boleyn Girl, signed on to pen a four-book series...
Home News Tribune, January 15, 2012
...of actress Hedy Lamarr's scientific prowess, and a new royal novel from the queen of the genre, Philippa Gregory. Van Gogh: The Life | By Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith, Random House, 868 pp., $40, non-fiction The tragic life of Vincent van Gogh...
Home News Tribune, January 14, 2012
...of actress Hedy Lamarr's scientific prowess, and a new royal novel from the queen of the genre, Philippa Gregory. Hedy's Folly | By Richard Rhodes, Doubleday, 272 pp., $26.95, non-fiction Hedy Lamarr, Hollywood starlet and inventor of a torpedo guidance...
Comedy Central, January 14, 2012
...The Roses. This new BBC drama based on the series of books The Cousins’ War by fiction novelist Philippa Gregory is told from the perspective of the powerful women behind the throne. You can find out more about LoCollege’s Kickstart Your Comedy...
Televisual, January 12, 2012
...Street, Bert and Dickie and William Boyd adaptation Restless. War of the Roses is a serial based on Philippa Gregory’s best selling historical novels, adapted by Emma Frost and made by Company Pictures. It will be set against the backdrop of the War of...
Mail Online UK, January 12, 2012
...the War of the Roses, which has been adapted from a series of books by historical fiction novelist Philippa Gregory. It will dramatise one of the bloodiest dynastic civil wars in British history, which saw the House of York and the House of Lancaster...
BBC, January 11, 2012
...The BBC is to screen a television adaption of Philippa Gregory's best-selling novels set during the War Of The Roses. Ben Stephenson, the BBC's controller of drama commissioning said the programme would be a "big, fat, old soap...
Mendota Heights Patch, February 5, 2012
...the grand masters of the gothic romance, and this is one of her best.   "The White Queen" by Philippa Gregory The first in Philippa Gregory’s fictional series about the War of the Roses, this novel details the sporadic civil war of England that...
Inver Grove Heights Patch, February 4, 2012
...the grand masters of the gothic romance, and this is one of her best. The White Queen by Philippa Gregory The first in Philippa Gregory’s fictional series about the War of the  Roses, this novel details the sporadic civil war of England that ...
Burnsville MN Patch, February 4, 2012
...of the grand masters of the gothic romance, and this is one of her best. The White Queen by Philippa Gregory The first in Philippa Gregory’s fictional series about the War of the Roses, this novel details the sporadic civil war of England that...
Media Bistro, February 3, 2012
...Magazine Award). In fall 2011, Simon & Schuster Children?s Division made a similar acquisition with historical romance author Philippa Gregory. Gregory, best known for her adult titles including The Other Boleyn Girl, signed on to pen a four-book series...
Apple Valley Patch, February 3, 2012
...the grand masters of the gothic romance, and this is one of her best. The White Queen by Philippa Gregory The first in Philippa Gregory’s fictional series about the War of the Roses, this novel details the sporadic civil war of England that occurred...
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...the beauty into a Microsoft Paint, or corresponding program, file and voila! Everything you wanted to know about Philippa Gregory is back! Or you could just open a cashed page and look at junk that way. This is actually easier than the Paint...
Film & Video, January 17, 2012
...plans for a wealth of new dramas during the Broadcasting Press Guild in London including an adaptation of Philippa Gregory’s best-selling novels. In addition plans for adaptations of Wilkie Collins' The Moonstone and James Herbert's The Secret of...