Her book, The Other Boleyn Girl, won the Parker Romantic Novel of the Year award and was adapted into a major feature film in 2008 starring Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson. She won the Feminist Book Fortnight Award in 1990 and the Romantic Novelist of the Year Award in 2002. Her script won an award from the Committee for Racial Equality. She adapted her novel A Respectable Trade, about the slave trade in England, into a four-part series for BBC television. She has also written several contemporary fiction works including Perfectly Correct, The Little House and Zelda's Cut. Her historical novels include: Wideacre, The Queen's Fool, The Virgin's Lover, The Constant Princess, The Boleyn Inheritance, The Other Queen, The White Queen, The Red Queen, The Lady of the Rivers and The White Princess. She has taught at numerous universities and was made a fellow of Kingston University in 1994. in 18th-century literature from the University of Edinburgh in 1984. in history at Sussex University in 1982 and a Ph.D. Philippa Gregory was born in Nairobi, Kenya on January 9, 1954.
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