A.S. Byatt
Born Antonia Susan Drabble on August 24, 1936 in Sheffield, England, daughter of John F. Drabble and the teacher Kathleen Marie England, Susan is now internationally recognized as A. S. Byatt. Antonia is known most for her novels and short stories. Byatt has an also famous sibling, who is a novelist and critic by the name of Margaret Drabble. It is well know that the two with hold a legendary rivalry. She was educated at a Quaker school in York, New ham College, Cambridge, Pennsylvania, Oxford and several other colleges as a postgraduate. She began lecturing as a senior lecturer in English at the University College England. Her long education and independence ended with her marriage to Ian Byatt.
Her most successful book, “Possession”, A Romance published in 1990, won the Booker Prize for Fiction and the Irish Times International Fiction Prize, and continues to enjoy its popular success. Since becoming a full-time writer, Byatt has published several novels, including “The......
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