The Children's Book

A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR

A. S. Byatt is internationally acclaimed as a novelist, short story writer and critic. Her novels include Possession, awarded the Booker Prize in 1990; the quartet The Virgin in the Garden, Still Life, Babel Tower and A Whistling Woman; The Game; and The Biographer’s Tale. She has also written two novellas, published together as Angels and Insects, and five collections of shorter works, including The Matisse Stories and Little Black Book of Stories, as well as several works of nonfiction. Educated at Cambridge, she was a senior Lecturer in English and American literature at University College, London. She lives in London.