AS Byatt obituary: Not an academic who wrote a novel, but a novelist who was brilliant academically
Tragedy struck in the early 1970s, when her only son, Charles, who had just turned 11, was killed by a drunken driver
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Tragedy struck in the early 1970s, when her only son, Charles, who had just turned 11, was killed by a drunken driver
One of Britain’s most ambitious and intellectual novelists, she won the Booker Prize with “Possession,” her 1990 tale of illicit love spanning two centuries.
A.S. Byatt, one of the most ambitious writers of her generation, whose dazzling 1990 novel, “Possession,” won the Booker Prize and brought her international fame as a novelist and unapologetic intellectual, died Thursday at her home in London. She was 87.