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Brookner, Anita

LC control no.n 50039742
Descriptive conventionsrda
LC classificationPR6052.R5816
Personal name headingBrookner, Anita
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Birth date1928-07-16
Death date2016-03-10
Place of birthLondon (England)
Field of activityGreuze, Jean-Baptiste, 1725-1805
Art, French
AffiliationCourtauld Institute of Art
University of Reading
University of Cambridge
Profession or occupationArt historians Novelists College teachers
Found inHer Watteau, 1967 i.e. 1968.
Sadler, L.V. Anita Brookner, c1990: CIP front matter (b. July 16, 1928)
New York times WWW site, viewed Mar. 18, 2016 (in obituary published Mar. 15: Anita Brookner; b. July 16, 1928, southeast London; d. Thursday [Mar. 10, 2016], aged 87; lived in London; British author of lean, elegiac, and stylistically polished novels who was once labeled the "mistress of gloom" for her depiction of bleak and disappointed lives, usually of women; by the time she started writing fiction, she had been a prominent art historian specializing in French artists, notably Jean-Baptiste Greuze)
Associated languageeng