HILARY MANTEL is the bestselling author of ten previous novels, including Wolf Hall, which won the 2009 Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. Among her novels are A Change of Climate, A Place of Greater Safety, Beyond Black, and Eight Months on Ghazzah Street. She has also written a memoir, Giving Up the Ghost. The winner of the 2006 Hawthornden Prize, her reviews and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, and the London Review of Books. Mantel lives in England with her husband.