Altered States
by Anita Brookner
List Price: $12.00
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 0679773258
Publisher: Vintage
Anita Brookner was born in
London in 1928. She received a B.A. from King's College, University of
London, and a Ph.D. in the history of art from the Courtauld Institute.
Brookner taught at the University of Reading from 1959 to 1964, and since
1967 has been a Lecturer in Art History at the Courtauld. From 1967 to
1968 she was Slade Professor at Cambridge, the first woman to hold that
position. Since her first novel was published in 1981, Brookner has had
a dual career as an art historian and a novelist. She has been remarkably
successful in both fields and has published fourteen novels in as many
years. Hotel du Lac, her fourth novel, won the Booker Prize, England's
highest honor for fiction.
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