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Hilary Mantel

Biography

Hilary Mantel

Hilary Mantel was the author of the bestselling novel WOLF HALL and its sequel, BRING UP THE BODIES, which both won the Booker Prize. The final novel of the Wolf Hall trilogy, THE MIRROR & THE LIGHT, debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list and won worldwide critical acclaim. Mantel wrote 17 celebrated books, including the memoir GIVING UP THE GHOST, and she was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, the Walter Scott Prize, the Costa Book Award, the Hawthornden Prize, and many other accolades. In 2014, Mantel was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire. She died at age 70 in 2022.

Hilary Mantel

Books by Hilary Mantel