The two-time Booker Prize-winning author was known for “Wolf Hall” and two other novels based on the life of Thomas Cromwell.
Tag: Books and Literature
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Joan Didion’s Memorial Service Was a Star-Studded Evening
Among the well-wishers at Joan Didion’s memorial service in New York.
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How ‘Lord of the Rings’ Inspires Italy’s Giorgia Meloni
Giorgia Meloni, the nationalist politician who is the front-runner to become prime minister, sees “The Lord of the Rings” as not just a series of novels, but also a sacred text.
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What Hemingway Left in Sloppy Joe’s Bar 80 Years Ago
The trove of items deposited in Key West, now part of a new archive at Penn State, includes four unpublished short stories, drafts of manuscripts and boxes of personal effects.
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In ‘Joyce’s Women,’ 2 Great Irish Writers Square Up
Edna O’Brien’s latest stage work, at the Abbey Theater in Dublin, imagines the inner lives of important female figures around James Joyce.