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  1. Hilary Mantel: why I became a historical novelist

    Hilary Mantel: 'I began writing fiction when I discovered I wanted to be a historian.' ... Deep research in the archives can be reported in tabular form and lists, by historians talking to ...

  2. Remembering Hilary Mantel, Booker Prize-winning author of the 'Wolf

    Today, we remember author Hilary Mantel, who died last week at the age of 70. Mantel is best known for her three novels about Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII's chief minister. Terry spoke with Hilary ...

  3. Hilary Mantel

    Hilary Mantel (born July 6, 1952, Hadfield, Derbyshire, England—died September 22, 2022, Exeter, Devon) was an English writer known for her bleakly comic, socially probing novels set in a wide range of contemporary and historical milieus.Her most notable work was a trilogy based on the life of Thomas Cromwell: Wolf Hall (2009), Bring Up the Bodies (2012), and The Mirror & the Light (2020).

  4. A look at the literary legacy of Hilary Mantel

    Hilary Mantel authored 17 books, but it was her trilogy of historical fiction based on the life of England's Thomas Cromwell and King Henry VIII that brought her worldwide fame and acclaim. Mantel ...

  5. Paris Review

    Hilary Mantel. , The Art of Fiction No. 226. Hilary Mantel was born Hilary Thompson in Hadfield, Derbyshire, a mill town fifteen miles east of Manchester. Her memoir, Giving Up the Ghost, chronicles a grim childhood in a working-class Irish Catholic family: "From about the age of four I had begun to believe I had done something wrong.".

  6. A look at the work of author Hilary Mantel, who has died at 70

    Transcript. Acclaimed author Hilary Mantel had died at age 70. She is best known for writing the Wolf Hall trilogy. MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Dame Hilary Mantel died today. The British writer was ...

  7. Hilary Mantel

    Dame Hilary Mary Mantel DBE FRSL (/ m æ n ˈ t ɛ l / man-TEL; born Thompson; 6 July 1952 - 22 September 2022) was a British writer whose work includes historical fiction, personal memoirs and short stories. Her first published novel, Every Day Is Mother's Day, was released in 1985.She went on to write 12 novels, two collections of short stories, a personal memoir, and numerous articles and ...

  8. Hilary Mantel Stared Down Her Past, and the World's, With Steely

    Sept. 23, 2022. For many readers, the portal into Hilary Mantel's work was "Wolf Hall" (2009), the first volume of an astonishing trilogy about the 16th-century fixer and enforcer Thomas ...

  9. Hilary Mantel's Art Was Infused With Her Pain

    Read: Hilary Mantel takes Thomas Cromwell down In her 20s, she developed a case of endometriosis severe enough to make her vomit and have so much pain in her limbs and organs that she couldn't walk.

  10. Reading and Rereading Hilary Mantel

    For example, an advice column recommends a therapeutic regression to the womb and finds its way into Mantel's reflection on millennial mediumship in Beyond Black (2005). Left: Extract from a small pocket notebook of Hilary Mantel's research notes. The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.

  11. An Interview with Hilary Mantel

    Celebrated Booker prize-winning author Dame Hilary Mantel died on September 23, 2022. Such a loss to the literary world and to the world of historical fiction. One obituary referred to her as the queen of literature. In an interview with The Guardian, Hilary Mantel spoke about writing fiction: " But fiction makes me the servant of a process ...

  12. Hilary Mantel's Life with Ghosts

    Larissa MacFarquhar writes about the author Hilary Mantel, who has died at the age of seventy. ... Some of his research was into resuscitation—there's a thing called the Mammalian Diving ...

  13. Hilary Mantel Takes On Royals and Rebels in a Book of Essays

    When the book opens, it's 1987, and Mantel, with exaggerated self-deprecation, is offering her services to a magazine she considers the finest in Europe. "I was in awe of my paymasters," she ...

  14. Appreciation: Hilary Mantel's "Wolf Hall" transformed fiction

    Hilary Mantel, who died Thrusday at 70, transformed the much-maligned genre of historical fiction into books teeming with life and ghosts. (Els Zweerink) By Mary Ann Gwinn. Sept. 24, 2022 9:14 AM ...

  15. Hilary Mantel: How I came to write Wolf Hall

    Published October 18, 2023. 'Show up at the desk' is one of the first rules of writing, but for Wolf Hall I was about 30 years late. When I began writing, in the 1970s, I thought of myself simply as a historical novelist; I can't do plots, I thought, so I will let history do them for me. I had an idea that, after the French revolution was ...

  16. For Hilary Mantel, There's No Time Like the Past

    For the past decade, she and her husband Gerald McEwen, a retired geologist, have lived in Budleigh Salterton, an idyllic village on the coast of Devon. She's far from shy, though. A staunch ...

  17. BBC Two

    Hilary Mantel explains her approach to researching Tudor senses and sensibilities. ... Research. The Tudors are in many ways like us in many ways very alien. Your job is to work out which bits are ...

  18. How Beyond Black shone a light on Hilary Mantel's most personal

    Alison is the hero, in every sense, of Hilary Mantel's 2005 novel Beyond Black, a story of suburban dullness offset by dark magic. It is funny, frightening and full of sadness. Hilary Mantel has become a Booker legend, one of a select bunch of authors to win the prize twice, for Wolf Hall (2009) and Bring up the Bodies (2012), two of her ...

  19. Hilary Mantel: Cromwell trilogy finale hailed as 'masterpiece' by ...

    24 February 2020. Mantel has called the book "the greatest challenge of her writing life". Reviewers have hailed Hilary Mantel's finale to her Thomas Cromwell trilogy as "magnificent" and "a ...

  20. Wolf Hall author Hilary Mantel dies aged 70

    Dame Hilary Mantel, author of the best-selling Wolf Hall trilogy, has died aged 70, her publisher has confirmed. She won the Booker Prize twice, for 2009's Wolf Hall, the first in the Thomas ...

  21. Hilary Mantel's complex, conflicted Thomas Cromwell

    Hilary Mantel. Fourth Estate, 912pp, £25. â?oSo now get upâ??: these words open the first volume of Hilary Mantelâ?Ts trilogy about Thomas Cromwell, and they are almost the last of this huge and overwhelming third book. They are the words that Cromwell hears as a teenager, beaten within an inch of his life by his drunken and abusive father ...

  22. Hilary Mantel reading list: a guide to her Booker nominated titles and

    It was, of course, Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall series - published 24 years after the release of her debut - which made her a household name. In those three bestselling novels she brought a fresh perspective to a familiar historical period, all the while holding a mirror to a nation. She won the Booker Prize twice in the process, becoming ...