Sarah Waters (1) (1966–)
Author of Fingersmith
For other authors named Sarah Waters, see the disambiguation page.
About the Author
Sarah Waters was born in Wales in 1966. She has a Ph.D. in English. She is the author of several books including Tipping the Velvet, Affinity, The Night Watch, and The Paying Guests. Fingersmith won the CWA Ellis Peters Dagger Award for Historical Crime Fiction and the South Bank Show Award for show more Literature. She has won a Betty Trask Award and the Somerset Maugham Award. In 2003, she was chosen as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists and was named Author of the Year by the British Book Awards, The Booksellers' Association and Waterstone's Booksellers. Several of her novels have been adapted for television. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Works by Sarah Waters
Dancing with Mr. Darcy: Stories Inspired by Jane Austen and Chawton House (2010) — Foreword; Judge — 192 copies
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- Legal name
- Waters, Sarah Ann
- Birthdate
- 1966-07-21
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- UK
- Country (for map)
- UK
- Birthplace
- Neyland, Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK
- Places of residence
- Neyland, Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK
Kennington, London, England, UK - Education
- Milford Haven Grammar School
University of Kent (BA|English literature)
Lancaster University (MA|English literature)
University of London, Queen Mary and Westfield College (PhD) - Occupations
- novelist
teacher - Organizations
- Open University
- Awards and honors
- Granta's Best of Young British Novelists (2003)
OBE (2019) - Agent
- Judith Murray (Greene & Heaton)
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Bowie's Top 100, Fingersmith by Sarah Waters in 75 Books Challenge for 2016 (April 2016)
The Night Watch: 1940s vocabulary in One LibraryThing, One Book (June 2015)
The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters in Orange January/July (February 2015)
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Statistics
- Works
- 8
- Also by
- 14
- Members
- 29,048
- Popularity
- #687
- Rating
- 3.8
- Reviews
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- ISBNs
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- Languages
- 20
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