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Hilary Mantel


Born
in Glossop, Derbyshire, The United Kingdom
July 06, 1952

Died
September 22, 2022

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Genre
Literature & Fiction, Historical Fiction


Hilary Mantel was the bestselling author of many novels including Wolf Hall, which won the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. Bring Up the Bodies, Book Two of the Wolf Hall Trilogy, was also awarded the Man Booker Prize and the Costa Book Award. She also wrote A Change of Climate, A Place of Greater Safety, Eight Months on Ghazzah Street, An Experiment in Love, The Giant, O'Brien, Fludd, Beyond Black, Every Day Is Mother's Day, Vacant Possession, and a memoir, Giving Up the Ghost. Mantel was the winner of the Hawthornden Prize, and her reviews and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, and the London Review of Books. ...more

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Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell,...
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“It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.”
― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall
tags: facts, knowledge
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“Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.”
― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall
tags: book, books, fiction, read, reading, stories, story
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“You're only young once, they say, but doesn't it go on for a long time? More years than you can bear.”
― Hilary Mantel, An Experiment in Love
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