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Beryl Bainbridge (1934–2010)

Author of Master Georgie

Includes the names: Beryl Bainbridge, Bainbrigde Beryl, Bainbridge Baryl, Beryle Bainbridge, Beryl Bainbridge et al, Берил Бейнбридж

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Beryl Bainbridge was born on November 21, 1934, in Liverpool, England. She became an actress at a young age and worked in English repertory theatres and on the radio. Her work contains dark, somber subject matter, deftly mixed with humor. Her writing acts as an outlet for her childhood frustrations, and frequently deals with family relations. In her novels, she recalls memories of disappointment and of a bad-tempered, brooding father. During her lifetime, she wrote 18 novels including A Weekend with Claude, Another Part of the Wood, The Bottle Factory Outing, The Birthday Boys, According to Queeney, and Young Adolf. She adapted many of her novels, such as An Awfully Big Adventure, Sweet William, and The Dressmaker, for film. She has received numerous awards and honors including the Whitbread Award in 1977 for Injury Time and in 1996 for Every Man for Himself; the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction in 1998 for Master Georgie; a Guardian Fiction Award, and the David Cohen Prize for Literature in 2003. She was made a dame by Queen Elizabeth II in 2000. She died from cancer on July 2, 2010 at the age of 77. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from Master Georgie… (more)
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Works by Beryl Bainbridge
Master Georgie 902 copies, 19 reviews
Every Man for Himself 772 copies, 18 reviews
According to Queeney 624 copies, 19 reviews
The Bottle Factory Outing 539 copies, 21 reviews
An Awfully Big Adventure 509 copies, 16 reviews
The Birthday Boys 496 copies, 13 reviews
The Dressmaker 291 copies, 5 reviews
Young Adolf 246 copies, 7 reviews
Injury Time 242 copies, 9 reviews
Harriet Said 194 copies, 7 reviews
A Quiet Life 179 copies, 3 reviews
Another Part of the Wood 176 copies, 4 reviews
The Girl in the Polka Dot Dress 168 copies, 8 reviews
Watson's Apology 142 copies, 4 reviews
Sweet William 125 copies, 3 reviews
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Also by Beryl Bainbridge
Scott's Last Expedition: The Journals (Introduction, some editions) 500 copies, 3 reviews
The Penguin Book of Modern British Short Stories (Contributor) 419 copies, 2 reviews
The Best of Modern Humor (Contributor) 286 copies, 2 reviews
The Oxford Book of Travel Stories (Contributor) 73 copies, 1 review
Granta 14: Autobiography (Contributor) 71 copies
Ox-Tales: Air (Contributor) 67 copies, 3 reviews
Ice: Stories of Survival from Polar Exploration (Contributor) 57 copies
Deep Blue: Stories of Shipwreck, Sunken Treasure, and Survival… (Contributor) 28 copies
When I Grow Up: A Memoir (Introduction, some editions) 19 copies
An Awfully Big Adventure [1995 film] (Original book) 15 copies, 1 review
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Canonical name
Legal name
Bainbridge, Beryl Margaret
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Date of birth
1934-11-21
Date of death
2010-07-02
Burial location
Gender
female
Nationality
UK (birth)
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Birthplace
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK
Place of death
London, England, UK
Cause of death
cancer
Places of residence
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK
Education
Merchant Taylors' Girls School
Occupations
novelist
theatre critic
actor
novelist
Relationships
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John Johnson Ltd
Organizations
Awards and honors
David Cohen British Literature Prize (2003)
British Book Award (Author of the Year ∙ 1999)
The Heywood Hill Literary Prize (2004)
Fellow, Royal Society of Literature
Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (2000)
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After the publication of her breakthrough novel Harriet Said in 1972, Beryl Bainbridge became one of the grandes dames of British contemporary literature because of her prolific and successful works, original voice, and darkly funny outlook. Her biography, Beryl Bainbridge: Love By All Sorts of Means by Brendan King, was published in 2016.
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