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The Thing in the Forest Lesson Plan

About the Author

A. S. Byatt (Dame Antonia Susan Duffy) is a Booker Prize–winning English novelist and poet.

Born in Sheffield, England, Byatt was educated at boarding schools before going to Cambridge to complete a Bachelor of Arts degree. She followed this with further degrees at Bryn Mawr College and Oxford. Byatt published her first novel, Shadow of a Sun, in 1964. This marked the start of a prolific writing career, with output that included fiction, short story collections, biographies, essays, and the editing of scholarly collections. Byatt taught in the Extra-Mural Department of London University and the Central School of Art and Design, and in 1972 became a full-time lecturer in English and...

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