>> i just finished a biography called penelope fitzgerald who became known in the state's for the blue flower that came out in the year 1996, i think maybe 1997 in america. she started very late. she was the daughter of a very distinguished and interesting family. her uncle was a convert to catholicism and her father was the editor of a british magazine and so she had a very clever professional middle class family she married someone who was unlucky. she then a very brilliant student at oxford and started writing at 16 and became famous at 18 with a novel called the blue flower. it's an interesting story about waiting. it's actually very encouraging when you read stories about mozart and those that start very young but it's nice to hear about someone who finds there's ralph very late in life. she read like 13 buckson 20 years and started by writing about her own life so one of the episodes is that she and her brother at that time chaotic family lived on a barge in chelsea and it sank. she wrote a wonderful novel called off shore about the barge that sinks. she was teaching at the time