Dame Hilary Mary Mantel DBE FRSL was a British writer whose work includes historical fiction, personal memoirs and short stories. Her first … See more

Hilary Mary Thompson was born on 6 July 1952 in Glossop, Derbyshire, the eldest of three children, with two younger brothers, and raised as a Roman Catholic in the mill village See more

Mantel married Gerald McEwen in 1973. They divorced in 1981 but remarried in 1982. McEwen gave up geology to manage his wife's business. They lived in Budleigh Salterton, … See more

Novels
• "Every Day Is Mother's Day" series:
• Eight Months on Ghazzah Street: Viking Press, … See more

Literary prizes
• 1987 The Spectator''s Shiva Naipaul Prize for travel writing for Last Morning in Al Hamra
• 1990 … See more

Mantel's first novel, Every Day Is Mother's Day, was published in 1985, and its sequel, Vacant Possession, a year later. After returning to England, she became the film critic of See more

During her university years, Mantel identified as a socialist, and was a member of the Young Communist League.
Comments on royalty
In a 2013 speech on media and royal women at the See more