Maggie Gee (novelist)

Gee was born in [[Poole, Dorset]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://orlando.cambridge.org/public/svPeople?person_id=gee_ma|title=Maggie Gee entry|editor= Susan Brown|editor2= Patricia Clements|editor3= Isobel Grundy|work=Orlando: Women's Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present|publisher=Cambridge University Press Online|date= 2006|access-date=2 November 2020}}</ref> As a child, she lived in the [[English Midlands|Midlands]] before moving to [[Sussex]]. She was educated at [[Horsham High School for Girls]],<ref>{{cite book | last1=Blain | first1=Virginia| last2=Clements | first2=Patricia | last3=Grundy | first3=Isobel | title=The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present | publisher=Batsford | year=1990 | isbn=978-0-7134-5848-0 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A4MjAQAAIAAJ | access-date=2 January 2025}}</ref> won a scholarship to [[Somerville College, Oxford]] and did an [[Master's degree|MA]] in English literature and an [[Master of Letters|MLitt]] on Surrealism in England. After university, she worked in publishing for two years and then became a research assistant at [[Wolverhampton Polytechnic]] where she completed a [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D.]] in ''The Self-Conscious Novel from Sterne to Vonnegut''. She was one of the original ''Granta'' 20 [[Best of Young British Novelists]].<ref name="Bath"/>

Gee was born in [[Poole, Dorset]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://orlando.cambridge.org/public/svPeople?person_id=gee_ma|title=Maggie Gee entry|editor= Susan Brown|editor2= Patricia Clements|editor3= Isobel Grundy|work=Orlando: Women's Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present|publisher=Cambridge University Press Online|date= 2006|access-date=2 November 2020}}</ref> As a child, she lived in the [[English Midlands|Midlands]] before moving to [[Sussex]]. She was educated at [[Horsham High School for Girls]],<ref>{{cite book | last1=Blain | first1=Virginia| last2=Clements | first2=Patricia | last3=Grundy | first3=Isobel | title=The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present | publisher=Batsford | year=1990 | isbn=978-0-7134-5848-0 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A4MjAQAAIAAJ | access-date=2 January 2025}}</ref> won a scholarship to [[Somerville College, Oxford]] and did an [[Master's degree|MA]] in English literature and an [[Master of Letters|MLitt]] on Surrealism in England. After university, she worked in publishing for two years and then became a research assistant at [[Wolverhampton Polytechnic]] where she completed a [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D.]] in ''The Self-Conscious Novel from Sterne to Vonnegut''. She was one of the original ''Granta'' 20 [[Best of Young British Novelists]].<ref name="Bath"/>

She is a [[Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature]] (FRSL). Her teaching specialty is 20th- and 21st-century fiction.<ref name="Bath"/>

She is a [[Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature]] (FRSL).<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-09-01 |title=Gee, Maggie |url=https://rsliterature.org/fellows/maggie-gee/,%20https://rsliterature.org/fellows/maggie-gee/ |access-date=2025-07-05 |website=Royal Society of Literature |language=en-GB}}</ref> Her teaching specialty is 20th- and 21st-century fiction.<ref name="Bath"/>

Gee lived in [[London]] with her husband, the writer and broadcaster [[Nicholas Rankin]], and their daughter [[Rosa Rankin-Gee]], who is also a novelist.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jun/15/maggie-gee-interview-writing-novels-ghastly-profession-virginia-woolf|title=Maggie Gee interview: 'Writing novels is a ghastly profession'|first=Alice |last=O'Keeffe|newspaper=The Guardian|date=15 June 2014}}</ref> Gee now lives in [[Ramsgate]].<ref>Gee, Maggie (10 February 2019), [https://www.thetimes.com/article/dammit-thanet-i-love-you-how-the-southeast-tip-of-england-is-enjoying-a-genteel-renaissance-fcd6rkbfl "Dammit, Thanet, I love you: how the southeast tip of England is enjoying a genteel renaissance"], ''[[The Sunday Times]]''. Retrieved 11 February 2019.</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://theisleofthanetnews.com/2022/03/31/ramsgates-leading-role-in-new-tale-of-migration-and-community-by-town-author-maggie-gee/|title=Ramsgate's leading role in new tale of migration and community by town author Maggie Gee|first=Kathy|last=Bailes|work=The Isle of Thanet News|date=31 March 2022|access-date=15 August 2023}}</ref>

Gee lived in [[London]] with her husband, the writer and broadcaster [[Nicholas Rankin]], and their daughter [[Rosa Rankin-Gee]], who is also a novelist.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jun/15/maggie-gee-interview-writing-novels-ghastly-profession-virginia-woolf|title=Maggie Gee interview: 'Writing novels is a ghastly profession'|first=Alice |last=O'Keeffe|newspaper=The Guardian|date=15 June 2014}}</ref> Gee now lives in [[Ramsgate]].<ref>Gee, Maggie (10 February 2019), [https://www.thetimes.com/article/dammit-thanet-i-love-you-how-the-southeast-tip-of-england-is-enjoying-a-genteel-renaissance-fcd6rkbfl "Dammit, Thanet, I love you: how the southeast tip of England is enjoying a genteel renaissance"], ''[[The Sunday Times]]''. Retrieved 11 February 2019.</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://theisleofthanetnews.com/2022/03/31/ramsgates-leading-role-in-new-tale-of-migration-and-community-by-town-author-maggie-gee/|title=Ramsgate's leading role in new tale of migration and community by town author Maggie Gee|first=Kathy|last=Bailes|work=The Isle of Thanet News|date=31 March 2022|access-date=15 August 2023}}</ref>