| Margaret Maddocks | |
| Birth Name: | Joe Victory |
| Birth Date: | 10 August 1906 |
| Birth Place: | Caversham, Oxfordshire, England, UK |
| Death Date: | [1] |
| Death Place: | Chichester, West Sussex, England[2] |
| Occupation: | Novelist |
| Language: | English |
| Nationality: | British |
| Period: | 1944–1977 |
| Genre: | Gothic, romance |
| Spouse: | Richard Maddocks (1937–1970) |
| Awards: | 4 RoNA Award |
Margaret Kathleen Maddocks (née Cooper; 10 August 1906 – 20 October 1993) was a British writer of 17 gothic and romance novels. Before retiring she wrote her autobiography: An Unlessoned Girl in 1977. She is the only novelist to win four Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association.
Born in Caversham, Oxfordshire (now Berkshire), Maddocks was educated at St. Helen's School, Northwood, London, Middlesex, and in Dresden, Staffordshire. On 1937, she married Richard Maddocks, who died in 1970. She died in October 1993.[3]
Published since 1947 under her married name, Margaret Maddocks, she is the only novelist who has won four Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association for her novels Larksbrook (1962), The Silver Answer (1965), Thea (1970), and The Moon is Square (1976).
In 1977, before retiring she published her autobiography: An Unlessoned Girl.