I think crime writing is my link with trying to preserve a sort of order.
Antonia Fraser Quotes
Showing all text quotesBirth: | 27th August, 1932 |
Nationality: | British |
Profession: | Author, Novelist |
Antonia Fraser is a British author of history, novels, biographies and detective fiction. She is the widow of the 2005 Nobel Laureate in Literature, Harold Pinter, and prior to his death was also known as Antonia Pinter. Her first major work, published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, was Mary, Queen of Scots, which was followed by several other biographies, including Cromwell, Our Chief of Men She won the Wolfson History Award in 1984 for The Weaker Vessel, a study of women's lives in 17th century England. From 1988 to 1989, she was president of English PEN, and she chaired its Writers in Prison Committee. She also has written detective novels; the most popular involved a character named Jemima Shore and were adapted into a television series which aired in the UK in 1983.
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