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Hilary Mantel
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Hilary Mantel
British writer
Also known as: Dame Hilary Mary Mantel, Hilary Mary Thompson
Quick Facts
- In full:
- Dame Hilary Mary Mantel
- Original name:
- Hilary Mary Thompson
- Born:
- July 6, 1952, Hadfield, Derbyshire, England
- Died:
- September 22, 2022, Exeter, Devon (aged 70)
- Awards And Honors:
- Booker Prize (2009)
- Notable Works:
- “A Change of Climate”
- “A Place of Greater Safety”
- “An Experiment in Love”
- “Beyond Black”
- “Bring Up the Bodies”
- “Eight Months on Ghazzah Street”
- “Every Day Is Mother’s Day”
- “Fludd”
- “Giving Up the Ghost”
- “Learning to Talk”
- “Mantel Pieces: Royal Bodies and Other Writing from the London Review of Books”
- “The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher”
- “The Giant, O’Brien”
- The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire
- “Vacant Possession”
- “Wolf Hall”
- On the Web:
- BBC Sounds - The Reith Lectures - Hilary Mantel (Dec. 30, 2024)
Hilary Mantel (born July 6, 1952, Hadfield, Derbyshire, England—died September 22, 2022, Exeter, Devon) was an English writer known for her bleakly comic, socially probing novels set in a wide range of contemporary and historical milieus. Her most notable work was a trilogy based on the life of Thomas Cromwell: Wolf Hall (2009), Bring Up the Bodies (2012), and The Mirror & the Light (2020). Born into a working-class Roman Catholic family, Mantel attended convent school before embarking on a law degree at the London School of Economics. She finished her studies at the University of Sheffield in 1973 and ...(100 of 700 words)