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A. S. Byatt: biographical outline – – – – – – – – Born Susan Drabble on 24 August in Sheffield, England, the daughter of John Frederick Drabble, QC, and Kathleen Marie Bloor. Reads English at Newnham College, Cambridge. Pursues postgraduate studies at Bryn Mawr College, Philadelphia, USA. Embarks on doctoral research at Somerville College, Oxford; thesis eventually abandoned. Marries Ian Charles Rayner Byatt (Sir I. C. R. Byatt), marriage dissolved ; one daughter (one son deceased). Extra-Mural Lecturer, University of London. Publishes first novel: Shadow of a Sun. Publishes Degrees of Freedom, a full-length critical study of the novels of Iris Murdoch. Lecturer in Literature, Central School of Art and Design. Publishes The Game. Marries Peter John Duffy; two daughters. Publishes Unruly Times: Wordsworth and Coleridge in Their Time. Lecturer in English, University College London. Member of Social Effects of Television Advisory Group, BBC. Publishes The Virgin in the Garden, the first volume of the Quartet. Member of Booker Prize panel. Senior Lecturer in English, University College London; leaves academia to become a full-time writer. Alexa Alfer and Amy J. Edwards de Campos - Downloaded from at 04/29/ PM via free access A. S. Byatt: biographical outline 2 3 4 6 7 8 9 11 2 4 5 6 7 8 9 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 – – xiii Named Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature Publishes Still Life, the second volume of the Quartet. Member of Betty Trask Prize panel. Wins the PEN/Macmillan Silver Pen Of Fiction prize for Still Life. Publishes Sugar and Other Stories, her first volume of short fiction. Member of the Kingman Committee of Inquiry into the teaching of English Language. Publishes Possession. Wins the Booker Prize and the Aer Lingus Irish Times International Fiction Prize for Possession. Appointed Commander of the British Empire. Member of Literature Advisory Panel, British Council. Publishes Passions of the Mind, a collection of critical e

Campbell, Jane. "11 The Biographer’s Tale". A.S. Byatt and the Heliotropic Imagination, Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, , pp.

Campbell, J. (). 11 The Biographer’s Tale. In A.S. Byatt and the Heliotropic Imagination (pp. ). Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press.

Campbell, J. 11 The Biographer’s Tale. A.S. Byatt and the Heliotropic Imagination. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, pp.

Campbell, Jane. "11 The Biographer’s Tale" In A.S. Byatt and the Heliotropic Imagination, Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press,

Campbell J. 11 The Biographer’s Tale. In: A.S. Byatt and the Heliotropic Imagination. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press; p

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Celebrated British author A.S. Byatt—a scholar and novelist whose novel, Possession, won the Booker Prize and brought her international renown—has died at the age of

A statement released this morning by her longtime UK publisher, Chatto & Windus, reports that Byatt &#;died peacefully at home surrounded by close family.&#;

Byatt&#;s longtime editor, Jenny Uglow, penned the following tribute to her client and friend:

Working with Antonia Byatt was full of surprises. She was fascinated by metamorphosis, from the unexpected turn of individual lives, which she explored in early books like Still Life, to the chilling fantasy of short stories like &#;A Stone Woman,&#; and she was defiantly original, as with the inclusion of the poetry in Possession, or the form of her most original book, The Biographer’s Tale. Like many writers, she could hold the germ of a story in her head for a long time, sometimes for years, but when it emerged she would work on it assiduously in her notebooks and in conversations, reading widely to clarify the background of intellectual movements and artistic ideas, and mapping every scene in detail in her head, from the colours of clothes and the names of minor characters—which were often bizarre—to the complexity of train timetables. Finally, the shape was fully formed in her mind. Then it would flow on to the page, with not a change to be made.

Read A. S. Byatt on Iris Murdoch&#;s The Bell.

A.S. ByattPossession

This interview originally appeared in Dutch, in Trouw, Dec. 3,

The setting for my talk with the writer A.S. Byatt is one she could have described to perfection. Outside, on an Amsterdam canal, old houses regard their reflection in dark water. Inside, discreet light shines on paintings and artworks and candles illuminate the bookshelves that line the hotel bar. Dame Antonia has asked me to meet her here at six, but when I arrive she already has a visitor: the Dutch writer Cees Nooteboom, who has stopped by to bring his old friend a new selection of his work in French. He orders whiskey, she a glass of champagne. Then these two white-haired, keen-eyed literary eminences retire to a side room to talk while I chat in the bar with Peter Duffy, Byatt’s genial, bearded husband. It’s a quiet moment, but in the light of current affairs it feels poignant, a scene from a fading dream of cultural exchange.

At the time of our conversation, Byatt was getting set to formally accept the Erasmus Prize, the Netherlands’ most important international prize for art and culture. It is a fitting honor for a writer who draws on an immense knowledge of European languages and literature, science and the visual arts. Yet the award also recognizes a well-loved and popular literary figure, a born storyteller whose fiction is as compelling as it is erudite. Possession (), her Booker Prize-winning tale of two contemporary academics on the trail of a Victorian love affair, is a desert island book for the intellectual reader. The Children’s Book () is a richly detailed and disquieting novel about writers and artists at the turn of the 20th century. Her latest book, Peacock and Vine, is a biographical essay on the English designer William Morris and the couturier Mariano Fortuny. She may write from an ivory tower, but Byatt keeps the building open to the public and gives memorable guided tour