HILARY MANTEL: R.I.P.

What sad news. British author Hilary Mantel, author of 17 books including Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies, and The Mirror and the Light trilogy, has passed away. She suffered a stroke on Monday and died Thursday. She was 70. What a loss. 

Parul Sehgal, a former book critic for The New York Times, wrote in a 2020 review of “The Mirror and the Light” that Ms. Mantel’s writing envelops the reader “in the sweep of a story rich with conquest, conspiracy and mazy human psychology.” Ms. Mantel was not just a writer of historical fiction, Ms. Sehgal said, but an expert in showing “what power reveals and conceals in human character.”

Read more in the NYT obituary here.