A. S. Byatt

A. S. Byatt, born Antonia Susan Duffy, was an English novelist, poet, critic and short-story writer who died in 2023. She is best known for Possession, which won the Booker Prize in 1990, and for The Virgin in the Garden, the first of her tetralogy The Quartet, continued in Still Life, Babel Tower and A Whistling Woman. Her short-story collection The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye sits alongside her critical studies of her friend Iris Murdoch.