- Biographers, Literature, Fiction, Biography as a literary form
From the award-winning author of Possession comes an ingenious novel about love and literary sleuthing: a dazzling fiction woven out of one man's search for fact.Here is the story of Phineas G.
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- Author
- A. S. Byatt
- First published
- 2000
- Pages
- 305
- Publisher
- Quality Paperbacks Direct, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Chatto & Windus
- Editions
- 12
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780786235230
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“I made my decision, abruptly, in the middle of one of Gareth Butcher's famous theoretical seminars.”
Dame Antonia Susan Duffy (née Drabble; born 24 August 1936), known professionally by her former marriage name as A. S. Byatt, is an English novelist, poet and Booker Prize winner, and won the 2017 Park Kyong-ni Prize. In 2008, *The Times* named her on its list of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945. **Source**: [A. S. Byatt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._S._Byatt) on Wikipedia.
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