“It’s just an enormous loss to literature,” her longtime literary agent Bill Hamilton said in a statement.
Hilary Mantel, the two-time Booker Prize–winning author known for her trilogy of novels based on the life of Thomas Cromwell, has died from a stroke, said her literary agent, Bill Hamilton. Mantel was working on a new novel at the time of her death. “It’s just an enormous loss to literature,Raised in Hadfield, Derbyshire, Mantel read law at the London School of Economics before transferring to the University of Sheffield to study law theory and earning her bachelor’s there in 1973.
Subsequent novels were inspired by the years she spent in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, for McEwen’s work and the long shadow of her Catholic upbringing , among other personal and historical subjects. Yet Mantel found her biggest audience with
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