Booker Prize-winning British novelist Antonia Susan Byatt dies at 87
Obituary
Booker-prize-winning British novelist Antonia Susan Byatt, commonly known as A.S. Known as. Byatt died at the age of 87. Byatt, whose career spanned nearly 60 years, was best known for her 1990 novel "Possession: A Romance." The mother of three daughters, Byatt was heartbroken when her only son, Charles, died on his 11th birthday. Byatt was born on August 24, 1936, in the northern English city of Sheffield and was educated at a Quaker school in nearby York. He studied at Cambridge and Oxford before going to teach English and American literature in London from 1972. Her first novel, "Shadow of a Sun", was published in 1964, and is the story of a young girl raised by an influential father. Byatt eventually gave up teaching writing full-time in 1983. Seven years later he had a breakthrough with Possession, which became a bestseller and won the prestigious Booker Prize for fiction the same year. Byatt received the CBE (Commander of the British Empire) and DBE (Commander of the British Empire).
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