British novelist Beryl Bainbridge, clear-eyed chronicler of modern mores, dies at 75
By APFriday, July 2, 2010
British novelist Beryl Bainbridge dies at 75
LONDON — The acclaimed British novelist Beryl Bainbridge has died at the age of 75.
Ed Wilson, of her literary agency Johnson and Alcock, says Bainbridge died in a London hospital early Friday. She had been suffering from cancer.
Bainbridge was born in Liverpool in northwest England in 1934, and the city’s grit and humor informed her books.
She published more than a dozen novels, including “The Bottle Factory Outing,” ”According to Queeney,” ”Every Man for Himself” — set aboard the Titanic — and “Master Georgie.”
She was a five-time finalist for the Booker Prize, and twice won the Whitbread literary prize.
Bainbridge was made a dame, a female knight, by Queen Elizabeth II in 2000.
Details of survivors and funeral plans were not immediately available.
