Born: 16-Jul-1928
Birthplace: London, England

Gender: Female
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Novelist, Critic

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Hotel Du Lac

Father: Newson Brookner
Mother: Maude

    High School: James Allen's Girls' School
    University: King's College London
    University: PhD, Courtauld Institute of Art, London
    Professor: Cambridge University (1967-)

    Booker Prize 1984 for Hotel Du Lac
    Commander of the British Empire 1990

Author of books:
Jacques-Louis David (1967, art)
The Genius of the Future: Studies in French Art Criticism (1971, art)
Greuze: The Rise and Fall of an Eighteenth-Century Phenomenon (1972, art)
A Start in Life (1981, novel, The Debut)
Providence (1982, novel)
Look at Me (1983, novel)
Hotel du Lac (1984, novel)
Latecomers (1988, novel)
Brief Lives (1990, novel)
Fraud (1992, novel)
Visitors (1997, novel)
Undue Influence (1999, novel)
Romanticism and Its Discontents (2000, criticism)
The Bay of Angels (2001, novel)
The Rules of Engagement (2003, novel)

Do you know something we don't?
Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile

Copyright ©2008 Soylent Communications