A. S. Byatt

Born 24 Aug 1936 · Died 2023

From Sheffield, England, United Kingdom · Nationality: United Kingdom · Writes fiction

Dame Antonia Susan Duffy (née Drabble; born 24 August 1936), known professionally by her former marriage name as A. S. Byatt, is an English novelist, poet and Booker Prize winner, and won the 2017 Park Kyong-ni Prize. In 2008, The Times named her on its list of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945.

Quotes

“There are things that happen and leave no discernible trace, are not spoken of or written of, though it would be wrong to say that subsequent events go on indifferently, all the same, as though such things had never been.”
Possession, p. 508
“I shall from time to time write a small Clue — so that you may be the more thoroughly confounded.”
Possession, p. 178
“And where may hide what came and loved our clay? as the Poet asked finely.”
Possession, p. 223

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Books by A. S. Byatt in order

Books by A. S. Byatt in the order they were published, from The Shadow of the Sun (1964) to Ragnarök (2011).

Series by A. S. Byatt

The Quartet (Frederica Quartet)

If you like A. S. Byatt

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Margaret DrabbleHer younger sister, also an English novelist, with a similar interest in women's lives and the social history of postwar Britain.
Iris MurdochA contemporary novelist who also combined philosophy, moral questions and intricate plots.
John FowlesShares her interest in Victorian settings, the constructed nature of fiction, and the relation between a story and its historical world.
Henry JamesA major influence on Byatt's style and themes, especially in ideas of consciousness and the limits of knowing another person.
Muriel SparkAnother British writer of compact, intellectually sharp novels that play with form and the structure of plot.
Umberto EcoReaders who like the scholarly mystery and the blending of erudition with narrative in Possession often also like his novels.