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A.S. Byatt


Born
in Sheffield, Yorkshire, The United Kingdom
August 24, 1936

Died
November 16, 2023

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Genre
Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction

Influences
Iris Murdoch, Henry James, George Eliot, Emily Dickinson, T.S. Eliot, ...more


A.S. Byatt (Antonia Susan Byatt) is internationally known for her novels and short stories. Her novels include the Booker Prize winner Possession, The Biographer’s Tale and the quartet, The Virgin in the Garden, Still Life, Babel Tower and A Whistling Woman, and her highly acclaimed collections of short stories include Sugar and Other Stories, The Matisse Stories, The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye, Elementals and her most recent book Little Black Book of Stories. A distinguished critic as well as a writer of fiction, A S Byatt was appointed CBE in 1990 and DBE in 1999.

BYATT, Dame Antonia (Susan), (Dame Antonia Duffy), DBE 1999 (CBE 1990); FRSL 1983; Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (France), 2003 , writer; born 24 Aug. 1936;

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Average rating: 3.87 · 305,989 ratings · 21,540 reviews · 173 distinct works � Similar authors
Possession
3.90 avg rating — 82,433 ratings — published 1991
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The Children's Book
3.68 avg rating — 18,738 ratings — published 2009 — 65 editions
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Angels and Insects
3.64 avg rating — 6,031 ratings — published 1992 — 73 editions
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Ragnarok
3.48 avg rating — 6,127 ratings — published 2011 — 66 editions
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The Djinn in the Nightingal...
3.85 avg rating — 4,383 ratings — published 1994 — 34 editions
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The Virgin in the Garden (T...
3.71 avg rating — 3,573 ratings — published 1978 — 54 editions
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The Matisse Stories
3.76 avg rating — 3,169 ratings — published 1994 — 45 editions
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Babel Tower
3.83 avg rating — 2,817 ratings — published 1996 — 54 editions
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Little Black Book of Stories
3.79 avg rating — 2,782 ratings — published 2003 — 29 editions
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Still Life
3.89 avg rating — 2,529 ratings — published 1985 — 44 editions
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“I cannot let you burn me up, nor can I resist you. No mere human can stand in a fire and not be consumed.”
― A.S. Byatt, Possession
tags: passionate-love
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“They took to silence. They touched each other without comment and without progression. A hand on a hand, a clothed arm, resting on an arm. An ankle overlapping an ankle, as they sat on a beach, and not removed. One night they fell asleep, side by side... He slept curled against her back, a dark comma against her pale elegant phrase.”
― A.S. Byatt, Possession
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“My Solitude is my Treasure, the best thing I have. I hesitate to go out. If you opened the little gate, I would not hop away—but oh how I sing in my gold cage.”
― A.S. Byatt, Possession
tags: introversion, peace, solitude
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Polls

September 2017 New School Classic Poll

 
  44 votes, 14.2%

The Secret History by Donna Tartt, 1992, 559 pgs
 
  33 votes, 10.7%

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card, 1985, 324 pgs
 
  30 votes, 9.7%

The Godfather by Mario Puzo, 1969, 448 pgs
 
  27 votes, 8.7%

Dubliners by James Joyce, 1914, 207 pgs
 
  26 votes, 8.4%

Sophie's Choice by William Styron, 1979, 562 pgs
 
  19 votes, 6.1%

 
  18 votes, 5.8%

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, 1906, 335 pgs
 
  16 votes, 5.2%

 
  15 votes, 4.9%

Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse, 1927, 256 pgs
 
  15 votes, 4.9%

Possession by A.S. Byatt, 1990, 555 pgs
 
  13 votes, 4.2%

 
  11 votes, 3.6%

Swann's Way by Marcel Proust, 1913, 468 pgs
 
  11 votes, 3.6%

A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh, 1934, 308 pgs
 
  10 votes, 3.2%

The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran, 1923, 127 pgs
 
  10 votes, 3.2%

We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, 1924, 225 pgs
 
  10 votes, 3.2%

The Street by Ann Petry, 1946, 435 pgs
 
  1 vote, 0.3%

Maud Martha by Gwendolyn Brooks, 1953, 180 pgs
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

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