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Her biography of the scientist James Watson was published in 2016. Maddox had two children and two stepchildren.

She was vice-president of the Hay-on-Wye Festival of Literature, a member of the Editorial Board of British Journalism Review, and a past chairman of the Broadcasting Press Guild. 2009), were actively involved within the local community. Maddox lived in London and spent time at her cottage near Brecon, Wales, where she and her husband, Sir John Maddox (d. Maddox was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1999.

She received the Los Angeles Times Biography Award, the Silver PEN Award, the French Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger, and the Whitbread Biography Prize. Yeats, and Rosalind Franklin have been widely acclaimed. Her biographies of Elizabeth Taylor, D.H. She was a book reviewer for The Observer, The Times, New Statesman, The New York Times, and The Washington Post, and regularly contributed to BBC Radio 4 as a critic and commentator. “A vivid three-dimensional portrait of a sciencetist and human being … a moving biography.Born in Brockton, Bridgewater, Massachusetts, in 1932, Brenda Lee Power Murphy graduated from Harvard University (class of 1953) with a degree in English literature and also studied at the London School of Economics. “A meticulous biography… was the unacknowledged heroine of DNA, the Sylvia Plath of molecular biology.” - The Economist “A gripping yet nuanced account … a magnificent biography.” - The Independent “Maddox does an excellent job of revisiting Franklin’s scientific contributions while revealing her complicated personality.” - Library Journal “Able, balanced and well researched.” - Science “In this sympathetic biography, Maddox …illuminates her subject as a gifted scientist and a complex woman.” - Publishers Weekly “An excellent biography … Maddox’s account of Franklin’s last years and premature death is moving and poignant.” - Women's Review of Books “A sensitive, sympathetic look at a women whose life was greater than the sum if its parts.” - New York Times Book Review “Thoughtful and engaging.” - Chicago Tribune “Brenda Maddox has done a great service to science and history.” - San Francisco Chronicle Book Review “Lively, absorbing and even handed … What emerges is the complex portrait of a passionate, flawed, courageous women.” - Washington Post Book World “Maddox does justice to her subject as only the best biographers can.” - Los Angeles Times Book Review In 1962, Maurice Wilkins, Francis Crick, and James Watson received the Nobel Prize, but it was Rosalind Franklin's data and photographs of DNA that led to their discovery.īrenda Maddox tells a powerful story of a remarkably single-minded, forthright, and tempestuous young woman who, at the age of fifteen, decided she was going to be a scientist, but who was airbrushed out of the greatest scientific discovery of the twentieth century.