A. L. Barker

Audrey Lilian Barker (April 13, 1918 - February 21, 2002) was an English novelist and short story writer. She was born in St Pauls Cray, Kent and brought up in Beckenham. [ [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/a-l-barker-729784.html A. L. Barker - Obituaries, News - The Independent ] ] During her lifetime, she published ten collections of short stories and eleven novels, one of which - "John Brown's Body" - was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1970. She was also the winner of the inaugural Somerset Maugham Prize in 1947, with her collection of short stories called "Innocents".

Bibliography

Novels

*"Apology for a Hero" (1950)
*"A Case Examined" (1965)
*"The Middling" (1967)
*"John Brown's Body" (1970)
*"Source of Embarrassment" (1974)
*"Heavy Feather" (1978)
*"Relative Successes" (1984)
*"The Gooseboy" (1987)
*"The Woman Who Talked to Herself" (1989)
*"Zeph" (1992)
*"The Haunt" (1999)

hort Story Collections

*"Innocents" (1947)
*"Novelette, with Other Stories" (1951)
*"The Joy-Ride and After" (1963)
*"Lost Upon the Roundabouts" (1964)
*"Femina Real" (1971)
*"Life Stories" (1981)
*"No World of Love" (1985)
*"Any Excuse for a Party" (1991)
*"Element of Doubt" (1992)
*"Seduction" (1994)
*"Submerged" (2002)

External links

* [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/a-l-barker-729784.html Obituary from "The Independent"]
* [http://books.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,11617,654047,00.html Obituary from "The Guardian"]

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