A. S. Byatt

...Friday, Nov. 13, 2009 Comments (0) Print Share Reprints Best literary listen for a very long drive The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt Publisher and price: Random House Audio, $50 Unabridged: 24 CDs; 30 1/2 hours Ages: Adult

In this article: A.S. Byatt, England, and Britain

...2009 just a bad year for female authors, even though the writers with books this year reads like a who's who of women authors? A.S. Byatt, Alice Munro, Barbara Kingsolver, Ruth Rendell, Margaret Atwood, Louise Erdrich, Rita Dove, Lisa See,...

In this article: Salon.com, National Book Awards, Post-Gazette, Publishers Weekly, and Kathy Reichs

...repeat customers Long-list nominees for the 41st Man Booker Prize for fiction announced on Wednesday include two novelists ( A.S. Byatt and J.M. Coetzee ) who share more than a preference for initials over whole names. Each is a previous...

In this article: A.S. Byatt, Man Booker Prize, J.M. Coetzee, Hawaii, Athens, Stockholm, Chimpanzee, and Alzheimer's

...on her children. There's also been a lot of gossip about Drabble's falling-out with her famous sister and fellow novelist, A. S. Byatt, and the more recent trials of her husband, Michael Holroyd, who was ill with cancer. But there's...

In this article: Margaret Drabble, Cancer, Michael Holroyd, and The Washington Post

In fact or fiction, the world is not a safe place for children. That is a foundation stone of A.S. Byatt's sweeping novel The Children's Book. The Booker Prize-winning author of the 1990 best seller Possession begins her story in the late...

In this article: A.S. Byatt, Booker Prize, World War I, Fabian Society, USA Today, Oscar Wilde, and Paris

Originally published Sunday, November 8, 2009 at 12:01 AM 'The Children's Book': A.S. Byatt's opus of the Edwardian age "The Children's Book" is English novelist A.S. Byatt's richly detailed saga of a free-spirited English family in the...

In this article: A.S. Byatt, World War I, Fabian Society, Man Booker Prize, Edith Nesbit, King Edward VII, Possession: A Romance, and The Railway Children

Byatt's Edwardian-era tale 'an astute moral lesson' BY VIKRAM JOHRI A.S. Byatt's last major work was the 1990 Booker Prize-winning Possession, a tale of romance set in the highbrow London academia. She has been a major writer of our age,...

In this article: A.S. Byatt, Socialism, Booker Prize, and Rupert Brooke

Fiction: "The Children's Room" by A.S. Byatt Search post-gazette.com: Fiction: "The Children's Room" by A.S. Byatt It is always best to have a guide to an imaginary world. Every Wonderland has an Alice, every Oz a Dorothy, and Neverland...

In this article: A.S. Byatt, Socialism, Oz, Alice, Booker Prize, and Carnegie Mellon University

...the protagonist Olive Wellwood, a celebrated author of fairy tales and such books for young people. And of course Byatt being Byatt, she treats us to some marvelous tales from Olive's (and of course her own) pen. Some have jumped to...

In this article: A.S. Byatt, Possession, Alfred A. Knopf, Man Booker Prize, World War I, E. Nesbit, and Lytton Strachey

In 1990, A.S. Byatt received the Booker Prize for "Possession," a postmodern masterpiece that is, in part, a historical romance set in the late Victorian era. "The Children's Book," her brilliant new novel, which has a good chance of...

In this article: A.S. Byatt, Booker Prize, Europe, Peter Pan, J.M. Barrie, and Emma Goldman