Claim: Penelope Shuttle, who wrote her first novel at the age of 30,  married poet Peter Redgrove, who was awarded the Queens Gold Medal for Poetry in 1996.
Evidence: She wrote her first novel at the age of 20. She married the poet Peter Redgrove (1932 – 2003) and they have a daughter, Zoe. He was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 1996.