Hilary Mantel: The Road to Wolf Hall

Описание: This lecture is from The Frick Collection's Artists, Poets, and Writers Lecture Series.

Dame Hilary Mantel, two-time winner of the Man Booker Prize for her best-selling novel Wolf Hall and its sequel, Bring Up the Bodies, is currently at work on the third installment of the Thomas Cromwell Trilogy, The Mirror & the Light. In the home of Hans Holbein’s iconic portraits of rivals Thomas Cromwell and Thomas More, she will discuss the concept, research, and writing of the novels, their adaptation for stage and screen, and the historical figures they so vividly bring to life.

Hilary Mantel is an English novelist, dramatist, and critic best known for her two novels about the Tudor statesman Thomas Cromwell: Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies. Both books won the Man Booker prize, and she is now working on the concluding volume of the trilogy. Her most recent book is a short story collection: The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher (2014). She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a Governor of The Royal Shakespeare Company.

This lecture is made possible by the Drue Heinz Trust. It was recorded on Wednesday, March 18, 2015 at The Frick Collection, New York

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