Booker prize-winner Anita Brookner died

 The Booker prize-winning British author and renowned art historian Anita Brookner died on 10 March 2016. She was 87.
•    Brookner, who won the Booker in 1984 for her novel Hotel du Lac, was a bestselling author and wrote more than 25 novels.
•    Brookner, who in 1967 became the first female to be named a Slade professor of art at Cambridge University, was known for her style and stories centering on the theme of middle-class loneliness, often featuring female protagonists.
•    In 1990, she was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE). She was a Fellow of King's College London and of Murray Edwards College, Cambridge.
•    She was born in Herne Hill, a suburb of London to a Polish immigrant family. Her family changed the family’s surname to Brookner because of anti-German sentiment in Britain.
•    Brookner was educated at the private James Allen's Girls' School. In 1949 she received a BA in History from King's College London, and in 1953 a doctorate in Art History from the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London.
•    Some of her works includes
•    A Start in Life, 1981 (her first novel)
•    Greuze 1725-1805: The Rise and Fall of an Eighteenth-century Phenomenon (1972)
•    Jacques-Louis David (1980)
•    A Start in Life (1981, US title The Debut)
•    Providence (1982)
•    Look at Me (1983)
•    Hotel du Lac (1984) (won the Booker Prize)
•    Family and Friends (1985)
•    Latecomers (1988)
•    Lewis Percy (1989)
•    The Next Big Thing (2002, US title Making Things Better), longlisted for the Booker Prize
•    The Rules of Engagement (2003)
•    At The Hairdressers (2011), novella, available as an e-book only