Born: 16-Jul-1928
Birthplace: London, England
Died: 10-Mar-2016
Location of death: London, England
Cause of death: unspecified

Gender: Female
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Novelist, Critic

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Hotel Du Lac

Father: Newson Brookner
Mother: Maude Schiska

    High School: James Allen's Girls' School
    University: BA History, King's College London (1949)
    University: PhD, Courtauld Institute of Art, London (1953)
    Professor: Cambridge University (1967-)

    Man Booker Prize for Fiction 1984 for Hotel Du Lac
    Commander of the British Empire 1990

Author of books:
Jacques-Louis David (1967, art)
The Genius of the Future: Studies in French Art Criticism (1971, art)
Greuze: The Rise and Fall of an Eighteenth-Century Phenomenon (1972, art)
A Start in Life (1981, novel, The Debut)
Providence (1982, novel)
Look at Me (1983, novel)
Hotel du Lac (1984, novel)
Latecomers (1988, novel)
Brief Lives (1990, novel)
Fraud (1992, novel)
Visitors (1997, novel)
Undue Influence (1999, novel)
Romanticism and Its Discontents (2000, criticism)
The Bay of Angels (2001, novel)
The Rules of Engagement (2003, novel)

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