Anita Brookner

July 16, 1928

Born in London, England

Winner of the Booker prize, Brookner is a well respected novelist whose subject seems to be the many varieties of domestic unhappiness and despair. The fact that she published her first novel when she was 53 gives hope to aged aspiring writers who really should have more sense. 

Quote

"I was not then aware of the universal desire for a happy ending: I would not have understood such an abstraction."

Off-Site Resource

Brookner Website From Her Publisher

Bibliography

Fiction

A Start in Life - 1981 (AKA The Debut)

Providence - 1982

Look at Me - 1983

Hotel du Lac - 1984 (winner of the Booker Prize)

Family and Friends - 1985

A Misalliance - 1986

A Friend from England - 1987

Latecomers - 1988

Lewis Percy - 1989

Brief Lives - 1990

A Closed Eye - 1991

Fraud - 1992

A Family Romance - 1993 (AKA Dolly)

A Private View - 1994

Incidents in Rue Laugier - 1995

Altered States - 1996

Visitors - 1997

Falling Slowly - 1998

Undue Influence - 1999

The Bay of Angels - 2001

The Next Big Thing - 2002

Making Things Better - 2002

The Rules of Engagement - 2003

Leaving Home - 2005

Nonfiction

The Genius of the Future: Studies in French Art Criticism - 1971

Soundings - 1997

Romanticism and Its Discontents - 2000