She was a book reviewer for
The Observer,
The Times,
New Statesman,
The New York Times, and
The Washington Post, and regularly contributed to
BBC Radio 4 as a critic and commentator. Her biographies of
Elizabeth Taylor,
D. H. Lawrence,
Nora Joyce,
W. B. Yeats and
Rosalind Franklin have been widely acclaimed. She received the
Los Angeles Times Biography Award, the Silver PEN Award, the French
Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger, and the Whitbread Biography Prize.
Awards and honours Maddox was elected a
Fellow of the
Royal Society of Literature (FRSL) in 1999. She won the
Suffrage Science award in 2011.
Bibliography •
Beyond Babel: New Directions in Communications (London: Andre Deutsch, 1972) • ''The Half-Parent: Living with Other People's Children'' (London: Andre Deutsch, 1975) • ''Who's Afraid of
Elizabeth Taylor? A Myth of Our Time'' (London: Granada, 1977) •
Nora: A Biography of Nora Joyce (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1988); also published as
Nora: The Real Life of Molly Bloom (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1988) •
D. H. Lawrence: The Story of a Marriage, UK edition:
The Married Man: A Life of D. H. Lawrence (London: Sinclair-Stevenson, 1994) • ''Yeats's Ghosts: The Secret Life of
W. B. Yeats'' •
Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA • "Mother of DNA" •
James Watson (London: Bloomsbury, 2017); (New York: Harper, 2018) • "The woman who cracked the BBC's glass ceiling" •
Maggie: The First Lady • "The whole world in his hand"
The Times, May 27, 2006 •
George Eliot: Novelist, Lover, Wife •
Reading the Rocks: How Victorian Geologists Discovered the Secret of Life • ''Freud's Wizard: The Enigma of
Ernest Jones'' ==Personal life==