| A. S. Byatt  AKA Antonia Susan Drabble
Born: 24-Aug-1936
Birthplace: Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Critic, Novelist Nationality: England
Executive summary: Possession Father: John F. Drabble
Mother: Kathleen Marie Bloor (teacher)
Sister: Margaret Drabble (novelist)
Husband: Ian Charles Rayner Byatt (m. 1959, div. 1969)
Husband: Peter John Duffy (m. 1969)
University: University of Cambridge
Teacher: University of London
Teacher: Central School of Art and Design
Booker Prize 1990 for Possession
Commander of the British Empire 1990
Dame of the British Empire 1999 Queen's Birthday Honours List
Author of books:
Shadow of a Sun (1964, novel)
Degrees of Freedom: The Early Novels of Iris Murdoch (1965, criticism)
The Game (1967, novel)
Wordsworth and Coleridge in Their Time (1970, criticism)
Iris Murdoch: A Critical Study (1976, criticism)
The Virgin in the Garden (1978, novel)
Still Life (1985, novel)
Sugar and Other Stories (1987, short stories)
Unruly Times: Wordsworth and Coleridge, Poetry and Life (1989, criticism)
Possession: A Romance (1990, novel)
Passions of the Mind: Selected Writings (1991, essays)
Angels & Insects (1992)
The Matisse Stories (1993, short stories)
The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye (1994)
Babel Tower (1996, novel)
Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice (1998, short stories)
On Histories and Stories: Selected Essays (2000, essays)
The Biographer's Tale (2000)
Portraits in Fiction (2001)
A Whistling Woman (2002)
Little Black Book of Stories (2003, short stories)
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