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About Hilary Mantel
British writer
Dame Hilary Mary Mantel was a British writer best known for historical fiction, as well as memoir and short stories. Her work ranged across several forms, and she published from the mid-1980s onward. Her first novel, Every Day Is Mother's Day, appeared in 1985. Over her career she wrote 12 novels, two short story collections, a memoir, and many articles and opinion pieces.
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- “My childhood gave me a very powerful sense of being spooked. I didn't know whether what I was seeing were sen…”Hilary Mantel
- “The maid found a handkerchief of hers, under the bed in which she had died. A ring that had been missing turn…”Hilary Mantel
- “Men say," Liz reaches for her scissors, "'I can't endure it when women cry'--just as people say, 'I can't end…”Hilary Mantel
- “Life being so short, and the possible books to write so many, it's good to function by night as well as by da…”Hilary Mantel
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- “I used to forget that I was an Indian woman. I would even forget that I was a woman. I don't think of myself…”Mindy Kaling
- “And I didn't grow up wanting to be a director. I grew up wanting to be a writer, so for me, that was always t…”David Benioff
- “'Carrie' was a pretty big-budget movie at a real studio, with a director that had already done a bunch of thi…”P. J. Soles
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Books by Hilary Mantel
Bring Up the Bodies
2013
Wolf Hall
2015
The Mirror and the Light
2020
The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher
2014
An Experiment in Love
2007