Pat Barker (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
Patricia Margaret Barker achieved literary prominence when she was awarded the prestigious Booker Prize for The Ghost Road, the last novel in her trilogy of novels about World War I. Before the publication of this highly regarded trilogy, her reputation had been that of a working-class feminist writer. She was born in a small town near Middlesborough in the industrial north of England. Her first three novels, published by feminist publishing house Virago, are all set in the working-class environment in which she had been raised, and they depict women who are struggling socially...
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