Margaret Drabble (b. 1939) is an English novelist, biographer, and critic. She has published 17 novels, and in 2011, she was awarded the Golden PEN Award.
José Francisco Fernández, ed. New York. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2011. ISBN 978-0547550404
The fourteen stories in A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman are arranged chronologically from 19…