Antonia Fraser
Antonia Fraser
Lady Antonia Margaret Caroline Fraser, DBE, née Pakenham, is a British author of history, novels, biographies and detective fiction. She is the widow of the 2005 Nobel Laureate in Literature, Harold Pinter, and prior to his death was also known as Antonia Pinter...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth27 August 1932
writing ideas tomorrow
I have no plans for a future Jemima Shore mystery, but would write one tomorrow if a good idea came to me.
writing thinking order
I think crime writing is my link with trying to preserve a sort of order.
heart writing biographies
I realize that I had always in my heart of hearts planned to write a biography of Marie Antoinette.
hate book hair
I hate the only one of my book jackets when I was made up professionally, my hair made into a smooth bell.
thinking valuable deals
I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history.
exercise zest swim
Normally I make myself swim, do exercises. For zest I like going to the cinema.
war thinking people
I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't.
book hands people
People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police.
fun class maids
Lives in previous centuries for women are largely a matter of class. It would have been fun to have been a rich, privileged woman in the 18th century, but no fun at all to be her maid.
real interesting historical
I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting.
clever men brain
I love hearing details of writers' craft, as cannibals eat the brains of clever men to get cleverer.
justice usual middle
I decided as usual that justice lay in the middle - that is to say nowhere.
photography book friendly
The clue to book jacket photography is to look friendly and approachable, but not too glamorous.