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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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Works by Anita Brookner
Hotel du Lac 2,340 copies, 87 reviews
Look at Me 502 copies, 13 reviews
A Start in Life 465 copies, 16 reviews
Family and Friends 423 copies, 4 reviews
A Misalliance 387 copies, 2 reviews
A Friend from England 361 copies, 3 reviews
Latecomers 359 copies, 4 reviews
Brief Lives 327 copies, 5 reviews
Providence 308 copies, 5 reviews
Fraud 305 copies, 12 reviews
Undue Influence 299 copies, 4 reviews
The Bay of Angels 288 copies, 9 reviews
Incidents in the Rue Laugier 288 copies, 6 reviews
A Closed Eye 286 copies, 5 reviews
Altered States 286 copies, 3 reviews
The Rules of Engagement 284 copies, 9 reviews
Visitors: A Novel 270 copies, 8 reviews
A Family Romance 268 copies, 2 reviews
Leaving Home 266 copies, 13 reviews
Lewis Percy 265 copies, 5 reviews
Falling Slowly 257 copies, 4 reviews
The Next Big Thing 255 copies, 6 reviews
Strangers 244 copies, 19 reviews
A Private View 225 copies, 2 reviews
Romanticism and Its Discontents 64 copies
Soundings 43 copies
Watteau 35 copies, 1 review
Jacques-Louis David 30 copies
The Stories of Edith Wharton (volume 1) (Editor) 21 copies
The Stories of Edith Wharton (volume 2) (Editor) 18 copies
The Genius of the Future: Diderot, Stendhal, Baudelaire, Zola, the… 17 copies
At the Hairdresser's 17 copies, 1 review
Greuze: the rise and fall of an eighteenth-century phenomenon 8 copies
Hotel du Lac 2 copies
Eustace and Hilda (New York Review Books Classics) 1 copy
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The House of Mirth (Introduction, some editions) 8,443 copies, 184 reviews
The Reef (Introduction, some editions) 721 copies, 10 reviews
The Constant Nymph (Introduction, some editions) 330 copies, 9 reviews
Eustace and Hilda: A Trilogy (Introduction, some editions) 270 copies, 3 reviews
Troy Chimneys (Introduction, some editions) 162 copies, 7 reviews
The Stories of Edith Wharton (Introduction, some editions) 57 copies, 1 review
The Collected Stories of Edith Wharton (Introduction, some editions) 53 copies
The Surprise of Cremona: One Woman's Adventures in Cremona, Parma, Mantua,… (Introduction, some editions) 45 copies, 3 reviews
Granta 13: After the Revolution (Contributor) 43 copies
The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1880 (Foreword, some editions) 14 copies
Hotel du Lac [1986 film] (Original novel) 12 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
Burial location
Gender
female
Nationality
England
UK
Country (for map)
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
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)
Agents
A. M. Heath & Co
Short biography
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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