Barker, Patricia Margaret

Portrait
Born: May 08, 1943 AD
Currently alive, at 65 years of age.

Nationality: English
Categories: Historian, Writers


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.

 

 

 

 

Page last updated: 3:12pm, 11th Dec '06

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