Geraldine Norman graduated in 1961 with a Masters of Arts in Mathematics which she followed up by attending the University of California, Los Angeles from 1961 to 62 while working as a teaching assistant.
10 Facts About Geraldine Norman
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Geraldine Norman got a job as a statistician for The Times Newspaper in 1962 and began to write for the paper on statistics and computers.
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Geraldine Norman progressed in 1969 to become the Sale Room Correspondent of The Times.
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Geraldine Norman gained a name during that time as Christie's disliked her.
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Geraldine Norman asked awkward questions about secret practices within the industry.
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Geraldine Norman continued her to report on sales but made a speciality of investigating fakes.
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Geraldine Norman uncovered 13 drawings purporting to be by the 19th-century artist Samuel Palmer and went on to identify the forger as Tom Keating.
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Geraldine Norman joined The Independent newspaper as Art Market Correspondent eventually leaving in 1995 to focus on writing a book called 'The Hermitage: The Biography of a Great Museum'.
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Geraldine Norman then set up a branch of the Hermitage Museum in Somerset House which ran from 2000 to 2007 and went on to launch the Friends of the Hermitage in 2003 and the Hermitage Magazine in 2004.
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Geraldine Norman married playwright and novelist John Frank Norman on 16 July 1971.