A. L. Barker, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

A. L. Barker

English novelist and short story writer

Date of Birth: 13-Apr-1918

Place of Birth: London

Date of Death: 21-Feb-2002

Profession: writer, editor, novelist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Audrey Lilian Barker FRSL (13 April 1918 – 21 February 2002) was an English novelist and short story writer.
She was born in St Pauls Cray, Kent and brought up in Beckenham.
During her lifetime, she published ten collections of short stories and eleven novels, one of which - John Brown's Body - was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1970.
She was also the winner of the inaugural Somerset Maugham Prize in 1947, with her collection of short stories called Innocents.