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Hilary Mantel
September 30, 2022
Elaine Showalter
How Hilary Mantel Soared
When Elaine Showalter met the author in 2000, she was on the verge of an intellectual breakthrough.
April 6, 2020
Jo Livingstone
In
The Mirror and the Light,
Hilary Mantel Finally Takes Cromwell to the Block
The final installment of Mantel’s trilogy is the bloodiest yet—and the saddest.
February 3, 2016
Magazine
Alexander Chee
Children of the Century
For writers of historical fiction, fact fades and feeling persists.
October 31, 2014
Suzannah Lipscomb
What You Won't Learn About Thomas Cromwell by Reading Hilary Mantel
April 27, 2014
Erica Wagner
Hillary Mantel: This Is What It's Like to Be on the Receiving End of a Hate Campaign
November 13, 2013
Cara Parks
Why Is Pop Culture So Obsessed With the Middle Ages?
October 17, 2012
Peter Green
Bring the Dead to Life: Mantel's Booker a Boon for Historical Fiction
October 16, 2012
Daniel D'Addario
Alterna-Booker—Different Prize, Same Antics
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