Antonia Fraser
Antonia Fraser
Lady Antonia Margaret Caroline Fraser, DBE, née Pakenham, is a British author of history, novels, biographies and detective fiction. She is the widow of the 2005 Nobel Laureate in Literature, Harold Pinter, and prior to his death was also known as Antonia Pinter...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth27 August 1932
hate book hair
I hate the only one of my book jackets when I was made up professionally, my hair made into a smooth bell.
book hands people
People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police.
photography book friendly
The clue to book jacket photography is to look friendly and approachable, but not too glamorous.
book reading squares
I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful book.
book childhood france
The concentration in my book on Marie Antoinette's childhood and on her family influences. It is surprising how some books actually start with her arrival in France!
biography british-author full good juan king major offer player spanish worthy
King Juan Carlos would be worthy of a full biography as a major player in his country's history. Alas, my Spanish is not good enough to offer myself!
british-author exceptions foreign matters others reading time waste
Why waste time instructing others when you could be reading the manuscripts yourself? The only exceptions are matters of foreign language.
numbers lucky seven
Ninety-seven is my lucky number.
queens first-love special
Mary Queen of Scots was my first love, and that is always something special.
kings making-love wells
King Charles II liked women's company and well as making love to them.
heiress glad
I'm glad I was never an heiress.
long people terrorism
As long as you persecute people, you will actually throw up terrorism.
writing bedtime prison
That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing.
long historical gaps
It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies.