Hilary Mantel has passed [View all]

Sept. 22 from complications of a stroke that had occurred three days earlier. Sad. She was younger than me.

She wrote 12 novels, two collections of short stories, a personal memoir, and numerous articles and opinion pieces. Mantel won the Booker Prize twice: the first was for her 2009 novel Wolf Hall, a fictional account of Thomas Cromwell's rise to power in the court of Henry VIII, and the second was for its 2012 sequel Bring Up the Bodies. The third instalment of the Cromwell trilogy, The Mirror & the Light, was longlisted for the same prize.

I enjoyed her books; thought she was a great writer.

RIP