Ellis, Alice Thomas

Ellis, Alice Thomas
▪ 2006
Anna Margaret Lindholm Haycraft 
      British author and editor (b. Sept. 9, 1932, Liverpool, Eng.—d. March 8, 2005, London, Eng.), crafted spare, perceptive novels of middle-class domesticity under the pseudonym Alice Thomas Ellis. She also wrote magazine columns, most notably for the Catholic Herald and “Home Life” for The Spectator. In her novels—including The Sin Eater (1977) and The 27th Kingdom (1982), which was short-listed for the Booker Prize—she combined wit with melancholy and often incorporated supernatural elements. Her conservative Catholicism also informed many of her writings, particularly the nonfiction work Serpent on the Rock: A Personal View of Christianity (1994), in which she derided the reforms of the Second Vatican Council. Under her real name, Anna Haycraft, she was a fiction editor at the independent publishing house of Gerald Duckworth and Co. Ltd., which was owned by her husband, Colin Haycraft.

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