A. L. Barker

Audrey Lilian Barker FRSL (13 April 1918 – 21 February 2002) was an English novelist and short story writer. She was born in St Pauls Cray, Kent and brought up in Beckenham.[1] During her lifetime, she published ten collections of short stories and eleven novels, one of which - John Brown's Body - was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1970. She was also the winner of the inaugural Somerset Maugham Prize in 1947, with her collection of short stories called Innocents.

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Novels

Short story collections

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  1. A. L. Barker - Obituaries, News - The Independent
  2. West, Rebecca. The Novelist's Voice. Typescript housed at the McFarlin Library, University of Tulsa.

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