Dame Hilary Mary Mantel, DBE FRSL, is an English writer whose work ranges in subject from personal memoir and short story to historical fiction and essay. She has twice been awarded the Booker Prize. She won her first Booker Prize for the 2009 novel, Wolf Hall, a fictional account of Thomas Cromwell's rise to power in the court of Henry VIII. She won her second Booker Prize for the 2012 novel, Bring Up the Bodies, the second instalment of the Thomas Cromwell trilogy. Mantel was the first woman to receive the award twice, following in the footsteps of J. M. Coetzee, Peter Carey and J. G. Farrell. The third instalment to the Thomas Cromwell trilogy, The Mirror and the Light, is set to be published in 2015. 

July 6th, 1952 in Glossop  /  Died:   Sep 22nd, 2022