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Anita Brookner (1928–2016)

Author of Hotel du Lac

Includes the names: Brookner a, A. Brookner, Anita Brooker, Anita Broonker, Anita Brookner, Anita Brookner, Anita; Anita Brookner Brookner

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Anita Brookner was born in London, England on July 16, 1928. She received a BA in history from King's College London in 1949 and a doctorate in art history from the Courtauld Institute of Art in 1953. She went on to lecture in art at Reading University and the Courtauld Institute, where she specialized in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century French art. She became the first woman to be named as Slade Professor of Art at Cambridge University in 1967. Her first novel, A Start in Life, was published in 1981. Some of her other works include The Bay of Angels, The Next Big Thing, The Rules of Engagement, Latecomers, Leaving Home, Incidents in the Rue Laugier, Look at Me, and Strangers. Hotel du Lac won the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1984 and was adapted for television in 1986. She has also written scholarly works about Jacques Louis David, Jean Baptiste Greuze, and Jean-Antoine Watteau. She died on March 10, 2016 at the age of 87. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from Hotel du Lac… (more)
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Hotel du Lac 2,637 copies, 93 reviews
Look at Me 586 copies, 14 reviews
A Start in Life 533 copies, 18 reviews
Family and Friends 479 copies, 4 reviews
A Misalliance 424 copies, 2 reviews
Latecomers 410 copies, 5 reviews
A Friend from England 388 copies, 4 reviews
Brief Lives 372 copies, 5 reviews
Fraud 350 copies, 14 reviews
Providence 348 copies, 8 reviews
Undue Influence 332 copies, 5 reviews
Altered States 323 copies, 3 reviews
Incidents in the Rue Laugier 317 copies, 6 reviews
A Closed Eye 316 copies, 7 reviews
Visitors: A Novel 313 copies, 9 reviews
The Bay of Angels 313 copies, 11 reviews
The Rules of Engagement 306 copies, 10 reviews
A Family Romance 299 copies, 3 reviews
The Next Big Thing 291 copies, 7 reviews
Lewis Percy 288 copies, 5 reviews
Leaving Home 287 copies, 15 reviews
Falling Slowly 285 copies, 5 reviews
Strangers 264 copies, 21 reviews
A Private View 250 copies, 2 reviews
Romanticism and Its Discontents 75 copies
Soundings 48 copies
Watteau 40 copies, 1 review
Jacques-Louis David 31 copies
At the Hairdresser's 25 copies, 2 reviews
The Stories of Edith Wharton (volume 1) (Editor) 22 copies
The Genius of the Future: Diderot, Stendhal, Baudelaire, Zola, the… 21 copies
The Stories of Edith Wharton (volume 2) (Editor) 20 copies
Greuze: the rise and fall of an eighteenth-century phenomenon 9 copies
Eustace and Hilda (New York Review Books Classics) 1 copy
Desconhecidos 1 copy
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The House of Mirth (Introduction, some editions) 9,304 copies, 192 reviews
The Reef (Introduction, some editions) 786 copies, 15 reviews
The Constant Nymph (Introduction, some editions) 369 copies, 11 reviews
Eustace and Hilda: A Trilogy (Introduction, some editions) 280 copies, 2 reviews
Troy Chimneys (Introduction, some editions) 196 copies, 7 reviews
The Stories of Edith Wharton (Introduction, some editions) 67 copies, 1 review
The Collected Stories of Edith Wharton (Introduction, some editions) 61 copies
Granta 13: After the Revolution (Contributor) 54 copies
The Surprise of Cremona: One Woman's Adventures in Cremona, Parma, Mantua,… (Introduction, some editions) 50 copies, 3 reviews
The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1880 (Foreword, some editions) 14 copies
Hotel du Lac [1986 film] (Original novel) 13 copies, 1 review
Gauguin (Translator, some editions) 1 copy
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Date of birth
1928-07-16
Date of death
2016-03-10
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Gender
female
Nationality
UK
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Birthplace
Herne Hill, London, England, UK
Place of death
London, England, UK
Cause of death
Places of residence
London, England, UK
Paris, France
Education
James Allen's Girls School, UK
King's College, London
Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London
Occupations
art historian
university professor
novelist
Relationships
Agents
A. M. Heath & Co
Organizations
Courtauld Institute of Art
University of London
University of Cambridge
Reading University
Awards and honors
Order of the British Empire (Commander, 1990)
University of London (Fellow, King's College)
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Anita Brookner was born in south London in 1928, the daughter of a Polish immigrant family. She trained as an art historian, and worked at the Courtauld Institute of Art until her retirement in 1988. She published her first novel, A Start in Life, in 1981 and her twenty-fourth, Strangers, in 2009. Hotel du Lac won the 1984 Booker Prize. As well as fiction, Anita Brookner has published a number of volumes of art criticism.
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