Death is the last enemy: once we’ve got past that I think everything will be alright.
Alice Thomas Ellis Quotes
There is no reciprocity. Men love women. Women love children. Children love hamsters. Hamsters don't love anyone; it is quite hopeless.
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| Birth: | 9th September, 1932 |
| Death: | 8th March, 2005 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Profession: | Essayist, Writer |
About
Anna Haycraft was a British writer and essayist who wrote under the nom de plume Alice Thomas Ellis. She was the author of numerous novels, and also of some non-fiction, including cookery books. Born Anna Margaret Lindholm, she was half-Finnish, half-Welsh and spent part of her childhood as an evacuee in North Wales, a period she later wrote about in A Welsh Childhood. She later moved to North London. She was elected in 1999 a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Haycraft survived a bout of lung cancer but died a year later after secondary complications at age 72, in 2005.
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