Maureen Duffy (*1933, Great Britain) is a British author who writes poems, novels and plays. After graduating in English from King’s College London she worked as teacher and edited the poetry magazine “the sixties”. After being commissioned by Granada Television for a screenplay she decided in 1961 to work as a freelance writer. Her first novel “That’s How It Was” (1962) was a great success. In 1966 her novel “The Microcosm“ was published, dealing for the first time with the subject of homosexuality between women. Since then she has published around 30 works, including five volumes of poetry. A collection of her poems from 1949 to 1984 appeared in 1985. She has been active in various groups and writers’ associations and is currently President of the British Copyright Council and the Authors Licensing and Collecting Society. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and King’s College, London. Her most recent novel “Alchemy” was published by Harper Perennial in 2005.