Antonia S Byatt

A. S. Byatt (1936–2023) was a British novelist, literary critic and scholar. Born in Yorkshire, she attended a Quaker school and studied at Cambridge and Bryn Mawr College. She later taught at institutions including the University of London and University College London. Her best-known works include the novels The Virgin in the Garden, Still Life and Possession, as well as the story collection Sugar and Other Stories. Possession won the Booker Prize in 1990. In 1999 she was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire. Her other distinctions included the Shakespeare Prize (2002) and the Erasmus Prize (2016).