![]() ![]() To cope with her sexuality and her family's disapproval, Griffith began to drink alcohol, smoke cigarettes, and immerse herself in reading and music. Not until I reached sixteen" : 2 when she would no longer be a minor. Thus her conclusion that "no hint of how I felt must be allowed …. : 17 At age eleven she won a BBC student poetry prize and read aloud her winning work for radio broadcast.Īs a pre-teen, Griffith felt same-sex attractions, and by sometime in her thirteenth year, she knew she "was a dyke." She also felt cautioned by her parents' punishing response after one of her sisters acted on such desires at age fifteen. Griffith's earliest surviving literary efforts include an illustrated booklet she was encouraged to create to prevent her from making trouble among her fellow nursery school students. Her parents-whom she describes as wanting "to belong to the middle of the middle class … to fit in" : 7 -reared Griffith and her four sisters in the Catholic faith. Griffith was born 30 September 1960 in Leeds, to Margaret Mary and Eric Percival Griffith. ![]() Award, World Fantasy Award and six Lambda Literary Awards. She has won the Washington State Book Award, Nebula Award, James Tiptree, Jr. Nicola Griffith ( / ˈ n ɪ k ə l ə ˈ ɡ r ɪ f ɪ θ/ born 30 September 1960) is a British-American novelist, essayist, and teacher. ![]()
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