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Hilary Mantel Was the Magician and the Spell

Part of the particular wonder of reading her is the knowledge that no one else has ever written like that before nor will again.

Hilary Mantel brought great precision to her writing, and asked the same of us in our reading.

Mantel’s body of work spanned memoir, short stories, essays — and, of course, historical fiction. Here’s a guide to her writing.

The two-time Booker Prize-winning author was known for “Wolf Hall” and two other novels based on the life of Thomas Cromwell.

This fictional portrait of Henry VIII’s scheming aide Thomas Cromwell — the first volume in a trilogy — won the Man Booker Prize in 2009.