Occupation Author Name Margot Peters | Role Author | |
Born May 13, 1933
Wausau, Wisconsin ( 1933-05-13 ) Genre Biography, Literary criticism Education University of Wisconsin-Madison (1988) Books May Sarton: A Biography, The House of Barry Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada, Ambassador Book Award for American Arts and Letters Nominations Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Biography/Autobiography | ||
Margot Peters (born May 13, 1933) is an American novelist and biographer, including of Charlotte Brontë, George Bernard Shaw, Mrs. Patrick Campbell, the Drews and Barrymores, May Sarton, Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne.
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Early life and education
Peters was born in Wausau, Wisconsin, and earned undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Career
Peters taught at Northland College in Ashland, Wisconsin and held the Kathe Tappe Vemon Chair in Biography at Dartmouth College. In 1963 she became a faculty member in English literature at the University of Wisconsin, Whitewater, where she rose to full professor. She also taught women's studies, and since retiring in 1991 is now professor emerita.
Her first book, Charlotte Bronte: Style in the Novel, was based on her PhD dissertation.
Awards
She won the Friends of American Writers award for best work of prose in 1975 for Unquiet Soul: A Biography of Charlotte Bronte and Banta Awards in 1981 and 1985, for Bernard Shaw and the Actresses and for Mrs. Pat: The Life of Mrs. Patrick Campbell, respectively.