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Name: Pat Barker  
   
Also Know As:
   
Date of Birth: 8th May 1943
   
Place of Birth: Thornaby-on-Tees, Yorkshire, England, UK
   
Profession: Writer
 
 
From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia

Pat Barker (born May 8, 1943) is an English writer and historian. She published her first novel, Union Street, in the 1980s and has since won critical acclaim for her First World War series, the Regeneration trilogy, which documents the wartime experiences of the poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, the psychiatrist W. H. R. Rivers, and the fictional protagonist, Lt. Billy Prior. The final book in the trilogy, Ghost Road, won the Booker Prize upon its publication.

Barker is married and lives in Durham, England.

Books

  • Union Street (1982)
  • Blow Your House Down (1984)
  • The Century's Daughter (also known as Liza's England; 1986)
  • The Man Who Wasn't There (1989)

Regeneration (1990) The Eye In The Door (1993) The Ghost Road (1995)

  • Another World (1998)
  • Border Crossing (2001)
  • Double Vision (2003)

External Links

  • Pat Barker at www.contemporarywriters.com

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