About the Author

A.S. Byatt is an internationally acclaimed novelist, short-story writer and critic. Her books include the Booker Prize-winning "Possession," as well as "The Children's Book" and the quartet of "The Virgin in the Garden," "Still Life," "Babel Tower," and "A Whistling Woman." She was appointed Dame of the British Empire in 1999 and has been awarded numerous prizes, including the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, the PEN/Macmillan Silver Pen award, and the "Irish Times" International Fiction Prize. She lives in London, England.