A. S. Byatt (Dame Antonia Susan Duffy) is a Booker Prize–winning English novelist and poet.
Born in Sheffield, England, Byatt was educated at boarding schools before going to Cambridge to complete a Bachelor of Arts degree. She followed this with further degrees at Bryn Mawr College and Oxford. Byatt published her first novel, Shadow of a Sun, in 1964. This marked the start of a prolific writing career, with output that included fiction, short story collections, biographies, essays, and the editing of scholarly collections. Byatt taught in the Extra-Mural Department of London University and the Central School of Art and Design, and in 1972 became a full-time lecturer in English and American Literature at University College, London. She was active as a lecturer until 1983, when she chose to focus on writing full time.
Byatt won her first major literary award in 1986, when her novel Still Life was awarded the PEN/Macmillan Silver Pen Award. Since then, she has won the Booker Prize and the Commonwealth Writers Prize. She has also been awarded several honorary doctorates and was named a Dame of the British Empire.
Angels & Insects : Two Novellas is really quite challenging reading because of its subject matter; set in Victorian England, it tells the story of an upper class household, proper and upright on the outside but embroiled in an incestuous...
The Children's Book was written by A. S. Byatt, an award-winning author who has accrued international fame for her novels and short stories. This historical fiction novel was originally published during 2009 and was later published during 2010 by...
Possession was published in 1990; it is Byatt's fifth novel, and widely considered to be her most successful. The novel is inspired by Byatt's interest in Victorian literature, and her own work as an academic researcher and lecturer. It also...
A. S. Byatt's "The Thing in the Forest" is a short story about two girls who leave London to escape Nazi bombings only to encounter a miserable, worm-like creature in a rural English forest. Decades later, the women have difficulty processing the...
