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Anita Brookner was born in south London in 1928, the daughter of a Polish immigrant family. She trained as an art historian, and worked at the Courtauld Institute of Art until her retirement in 1988. She published her first novel, A Start in Life, in 1981 and her twenty-fourth, Strangers, in 2009. Hotel du Lac won the 1984 Booker Prize. As well as fiction, Anita Brookner has published a number of volumes of art criticism.
Praise for Anita Brookner Brookner's impeccable craftsmanship and worldly irony make each of her novels memorable. -- Publishers Weekly One of the very few contemporary authors whose novels deserve to live on well into the next century. -- The Washington Post Book World Brookner's control over the material is absolute. --Jane Smiley Anita Brookner works a spell on the reader; being under it is both an education and a delight. -- The Washington Post Book World If Henry James were around, the only writer he'd be reading with complete approval would be Anita Brookner. -- The New York Times Book Review Brookner is a writer of great skill and precision. Passages of brilliant writing abound, hard-won insights that startle us with Brookner's clarity and succinct intelligence. --Michael Dorris, Los Angeles Times Book Review
