Profile
Antonia Fraser
Historian + Biographer and Novelist
Female
Born
Aug 27, 1932
Age
80
Genres
Detective fiction
Nationality
British
Other Names
Pakenham, Lady An...
Dame Antonia Margaret Caroline Fraser, DBE, née Pakenham, is an Anglo-Irish author of history, novels, biographies and detective fiction, best known as Lady Antonia Fraser. She is the widow of Harold Pinter (1930–2008), the 2005 Nobel Laureate in Literature… Read More
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Hugh Charles Patrick Joseph FraserMarried 1956
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Sorab Shroff: Margaret Thatcher: Our Britannia, Our Chief Of MenThe Huffington Post - Apr 08, 2013
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Authors Call On Party Leaders To Save Libel ReformGuardian (UK) - Mar 06, 2013
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David Hare: 'It's Absurd, But I Feel Insecure' The GuardianGoogle News - Sep 02, 2011
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Guardian First Book Award Longlist: Fiction Takes Lead The GuardianGoogle News - Aug 31, 2011
Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
1932
Birth
Born on August 27, 1932.
TWENTIES
1956
23 Years Old
From 1956 until their divorce in 1977, she was married to Sir Hugh Fraser (1918–1984), a descendant of Scottish aristocracy 14 years her senior and a Roman Catholic Conservative Unionist MP in the House of Commons (sitting for Stafford), who was a friend of the American Kennedy family.
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FORTIES
On 22 October 1975, Hugh and Antonia Fraser, together with Caroline Kennedy, who was visiting them at their Holland Park home, in Kensington, west London, were almost blown up by an IRA car bomb placed under the wheels of his Jaguar, which had been triggered to go off at 9 am when he left the house; the bomb exploded killing a noted cancer researcher, Gordon Hamilton-Fairley.
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1977
44 Years Old
In 1977, after she had been living with Pinter for two years, the Frasers' union was legally dissolved.
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1980
47 Years Old
In 1980, after Merchant signed divorce papers, Fraser and Pinter married.
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FIFTIES
She also has written detective novels; the most popular involved a character named Jemima Shore and were adapted into a television series which aired in the UK in 1983.
1988
55 Years Old
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From 1988 to 1989, she was president of English PEN, and she chaired its Writers in Prison Committee.
1992
59 Years Old
More recently, Fraser published The Warrior Queens, the story of various military royal women since the days of Boadicea and Cleopatra. In 1992, a year after Alison Weir's book The Six Wives of Henry VIII, she published a book with the same title.
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LATE ADULTHOOD
1996
63 Years Old
Fraser has also served as the editor for many monarchical biographies, including those featured in the Kings and Queens of England and Royal History of England series, and, in 1996, she also published a book entitled The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605, which won both the St Louis Literary Award and the Crime Writers' Association (CWA) Non-Fiction Gold Dagger.
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Fraser's memoir Must You Go? My Life with Harold Pinter was published in January 2010 and she read a shortened version as BBC Radio Four's Book of the Week that month.
2011
78 Years Old
A Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE), she was elevated to Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2011 New Year Honours for services to literature.
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