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A.L. Barker

A. L. Barker left school at sixteen and after the war joined the BBC. Her debut collection of short stories, Innocents, won the Somerset Maugham Prize in 1947 and her novel, John Brown’s Body, was shortlisted for the 1969 Booker Prize. The author of eleven novels and ten collections of stories, she died in 2002.
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