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Byatt

[ bahy-uht ]

noun

  1. A(ntonia) S(usan), 1936–2023, English novelist and short-story writer (sister of Margaret Drabble ).


Byatt

/ ˈbaɪət /

noun

  1. ByattA(ntonia) S(usan), Dame1936FBritishWRITING: novelist Dame A ( ntonia ) S ( usan ). born 1936, British novelist; her books include The Virgin in the Garden (1978), Possession (1990), and A Whistling Woman (2002)


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She also read Philippa Gregory, A.S. Byatt, Peter Carey, and Peter Ackroyd.

Thor, to the young Byatt, “was the classroom bully raised to the scale of growling thunder and whipping rain.”

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