Barker, Patricia Margaret (Pat)

1943 - Born 8th of May in Thornaby-on-Tees.

Studied at the London School of Economics and Durham University.

1982 - First novel described the lives of working class women; Union Street which won the Fawcett Prize.

1982 - Wrote Blow Your House Down.

1986 - Baker wrote a novel  "The Century's Daughter".

1989 - Wrote "The Man Who Wasn't There".

1991 - Wrote the Regeneration which was made into a film.

1993 - Novel The Eye in the Door that won the Guardian Fiction Prize.

1995 - The Ghost Road which won the Booker Prize for Fiction.

2003 - Latest novel which published is Double Vision.