A. L. Barker

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Audrey Lilian Barker (April 13, 1918 - February 21, 2002) was an English novelist and short story writer. She was born in St Pauls Cray, Kent and brought up in Beckenham.[1] During her lifetime, she published ten collections of short stories and eleven novels, one of which - John Brown's Body - was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1970. She was also the winner of the inaugural Somerset Maugham Prize in 1947, with her collection of short stories called Innocents.

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[edit] Bibliography

[edit] Novels

  • Apology for a Hero (1950)
  • A Case Examined (1965)
  • The Middling (1967)
  • John Brown's Body (1970)
  • Source of Embarrassment (1974)
  • Heavy Feather (1978)
  • Relative Successes (1984)
  • The Gooseboy (1987)
  • The Woman Who Talked to Herself (1989)
  • Zeph (1992)
  • The Haunt (1999)

[edit] Short Story Collections

  • Innocents (1947)
  • Novelette, with Other Stories (1951)
  • The Joy-Ride and After (1963)
  • Lost Upon the Roundabouts (1964)
  • Femina Real (1971)
  • Life Stories (1981)
  • No World of Love (1985)
  • Any Excuse for a Party (1991)
  • Element of Doubt (1992)
  • Seduction (1994)
  • Submerged (2002)

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[edit] References

  1. ^ A. L. Barker - Obituaries, News - The Independent