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- Birth nameNita Brookner
- Anita Brookner was born on July 16, 1928 in London, England, UK. She was a writer, known for Screen Two (1984), Book Four (1982) and Anita Brookner on Art: 100 Great Paintings (2024). She died on March 10, 2016 in England, UK.
- Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors". New Revision Series, Vol. 130, pp. 40-51. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005.
- She was appointed CBE in 1990.
- She started out as an art historian, specializing in French 18th-century art.
- Her parents were Polish emigres to the UK. Their surname was originally Bruckner, but during WWI they changed the spelling to make it less Germanic.
- I could get into the Guinness Book of Records as the world's loneliest, most miserable woman.
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