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. 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 c...
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Date of birth:
- Apr 13, 1918
Date of death:
- Feb 21, 2002 (age 83 years)
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