Name A. Barker Role Novelist | Nominations Man Booker Prize | |
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Died February 21, 2002, Carshalton, United Kingdom Books John Brown's Body, The Gooseboy, Femina real, A heavy feather, The middling | ||
Audrey Lilian Barker FRSL (13 April 1918 – 21 February 2002) was an English novelist and short story writer. She was born in St Pauls Cray, Kent and brought up in Beckenham. During her lifetime, she published ten collections of short stories and eleven novels, one of which - John Brown's Body - was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1970. She was also the winner of the inaugural Somerset Maugham Prize in 1947, with her collection of short stories called Innocents.
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