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Dame Beryl Margaret Bainbridge DBE (21 November 1932 – 2 July 2010) was an English writer. She was primarily known for her works of psychological fiction, often macabre tales set among the English working class.
Jun 28, 2024 · Beryl Bainbridge (born November 21, 1932?, Liverpool, England—died July 2, 2010, London) was an English novelist known for her psychologically astute portrayals of lower-middle-class English life. Bainbridge grew up in a small town near Liverpool and began a theatrical career at an early age.
Beryl Bainbridge began her working life as an actress and remained an entertainer, as one of Britain's most popular and best-loved novelists. Her work attracted a wide readership as well as critical acclaim, was short-listed for the Booker Prize four times, and won the Whitbread Prize three times, including for Every Man for Himself (1996).
May 26, 2022 · Beryl Bainbridge explores the British experience of the Crimean War through the adventures - and hidden secrets - of her enigmatic central character.
Dec 9, 2016 · Brendan King’s biography of the British novelist Beryl Bainbridge, whose life was full of romantic drama.
Jul 3, 2010 · Beryl Bainbridge, whose sparely written, mordant novels, often with a dark comic edge, made her one of the most distinctive and admired voices in postwar British fiction, died on Thursday in...
Beryl Bainbridge was born in 1934 in Liverpool into a family in tense circumstances, owing to the discrepancy between her mother, Winifred Baines, who had been sent to a finishing school in...
Jul 2, 2010 · Novelist Dame Beryl Bainbridge, who has died at the age of 75, was one of the UK's most popular and prolific authors. She started her career as an actress in Liverpool, but...
Dame Beryl Bainbridge. Novelist, Screenwriter. 21 November 1932 to 1 July 2010. An acclaimed novelist whose work often evoked the economic privations of her Liverpool childhood, Bainbridge was an actress in her youth and this world was reflected in her novel An Awfully Big Adventure, filmed in 1995.
Jul 15, 2010 · Dame Beryl Bainbridge, novelist, died on July 2nd, aged 77. Jul 15th 2010 |. IF THE words really wouldn't come, she would leave the house for a while. Squeezing past the stiff bulk of...
