Prominent British novelist and art historian Anita Brookner died March 10 at the age of 87. Born in London to Jewish immigrant parents from Poland, Brookner dedicated her life to her work. “That’s why ...

Anita Brookner, the novelist, who has died aged 87, specialised in exploring the hidden pressures, ethical dilemmas and repressed emotions that shape ordinary lives, and won the 1984 Booker Prize for ...

LONDON — Anita Brookner, a British author of lean, elegiac, and stylistically polished novels who was once labeled the “mistress of gloom” for her depiction of bleak and disappointed lives, usually of ...

Anita Brookner, the award-winning British author and historian, died peacefully in her sleep Thursday, according to The Times. She was 87 years old. The former professor took to writing late in her ...

LONDON (AP) — Booker Prize-winning author and art historian Anita Brookner has died. She was 87. A death notice in Tuesday’s edition of The Times newspaper said Brookner died peacefully in her sleep ...

Anita Brookner, a late-blooming novelist whose elegant tales of self-aware but emotionally constricted characters, primarily women, brought her Britain’s most prestigious literary award and a ...

Although British novelist Anita Brookner's true forte is delineating the lamentable fate of young, lonely, single women, she has a fairly strong second suit: the equally sad condition of older people ...

Do not be deceived by the title of this book, or by the fact that much of Anita Brookner's twentieth novel, as lean in size and as unsparing in judgment as its predecessors, is illuminated by the ...

Merle Rubin is a contributing writer to Book Review. “LOOK AT ME.” This was the terse, almost naked-sounding title of Anita Brookner’s third novel. Nearly 23 years ago, I first encountered Brookner’s ...