![]() ![]() When German former prisoner of war Harry Arno Franz wrote to her in November 1947, he mentioned her 15th birthday. Although she gave her date of birth in Who's Who and elsewhere as 21 November 1934, she was born in 1932 and her birth was registered in the first quarter of 1933. ![]() ![]() Her parents were Richard Bainbridge and Winifred Baines. Biography Early life īeryl Bainbridge was born in Allerton, Liverpool, and brought up in nearby Formby. In 2008, The Times named Bainbridge on their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". She was described in 2007 by Charlotte Higgins as "a national treasure". Bainbridge won the Whitbread Awards prize for best novel in 19 she was nominated five times for the Booker Prize. She was primarily known for her works of psychological fiction, often macabre tales set among the English working class. Dame Beryl Margaret Bainbridge DBE (21 November 1932 – 2 July 2010) was an English writer from Liverpool. ![]()
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