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- Birth nameHilary Mary Thompson
- Hilary Mantel was born on July 6, 1952 in Glossop, Derbyshire, England, UK. She was a writer, known for Wolf Hall (2015), Comma (2026) and Druckfrisch (2003). She was married to Gerald McEwen. She died on September 22, 2022 in Exeter, Devon, England, UK.
- SpousesGerald McEwen(1982 - September 22, 2022) (her death)Gerald McEwen(1973 - 1981) (divorced)
- Mantel was awarded Commander of the Order of the British Empire before being awarded Dame Commander of the British Empire in the 2014 Queen's Birthday Honors List for her services to Literature. Incidentally, she died two weeks after Queen Elizabeth.
- She resided in the small seaside town of Budleigh Salterton in Devon.
- She took her stepfather's surname, Mantel, after her mother re-married.
- She and her husband Gerald McEwen divorced in 1981 but remarried in 1982.
- After university she worked as a social worker at a geriatric hospital.
- [describing Kate Middleton, Duchess of Cambridge] She was just a shop-window mannequin, with no personality of her own, entirely defined by what she wore.
- [asked, shortly before her death, if she believed in an afterlife] Yes. I can't imagine how it might work. However, the universe is not limited by what I can imagine.
- Illness strips you back to an authentic self, but not one you need to meet. Too much is claimed for authenticity. Painfully we learn to live in the world, and to be false.
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