Marina Warner
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Marina Warner (9 November 1946 London –) is a British writer, known as a novelist and short story writer, and also for many non-fiction books relating in various ways to feminism and myth.
She was born in London to an English father and Italian mother. She was brought up in Cairo, Brussels and in Berkshire, England, and studied French and Italian at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. She received an honorary doctorate (DLitt) from the University of Oxford on 21 June 2006. She was at one time married to William Shawcross, with whom she had a son Conrad Shawcross.
Her first book was the controversial Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary, which was a devastating critique of Catholic adoration of the Virgin Mary, which Warner savaged as both anti-Christian and anti-feminist. It was followed by Monuments & Maidens: the allegory of the female form and Joan of Arc: the image of female heroism.
Her novel The Lost Father was on the Booker Prize shortlist in 1988; the non-fiction From the Beast to the Blonde won a Mythopoeic Award in 1996. The companion study of the male terror figure (from ancient myth and folklore to modern obsessions), No Go the Bogeyman was published in 2000. Her other novels include The Leto Bundle, and Indigo.
She gave the 1994 Reith Lectures, Managing Monsters, is an Honorary Professor of St Andrews University and is a current Professor at the University of Essex.
Her latest book is Phantasmagoria (2006), tracing the ways in which 'the spirit' has been represented across different mediums, from waxworks to cinema.
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