Margaret Drabble

Dame Antonia Susan Duffy (née Drabble; 24 August 1936 – 16 November 2023), known professionally by her former married name, A. S. Byatt ( BY-ət), was an English critic, novelist, poet and short-story writer. Her books have been translated into more than thirty languages. After attending the University of Cambridge, she married in 1959 and moved to Durham. It was during Byatt's time at university that she began working on her first two novels, subsequently published by Chatto & Windus as Shadow o…