Anita Brookner Notebooks ca. 1986-1994

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Anita Brookner Notebooks ca. 1986-1994

The papers of Anita Brookner consistof ten notebooks containing untitled drafts of her novels and reviews. The notebooksare undated but appear to date from about 1986 to 1994.

2 boxes (.63 linear feet)

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Brookner, Anita.

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Novelist and art historian Anita Brookner was born in Herne Hill, a suburb of London, England, on July 16, 1928. Her father, Newson Bruckner, was a Polish immigrant, and her mother, Maude Schiska, was a singer whose father had immigrated from Poland and founded a tobacco factory. Maude changed their surname to Brookner due to anti-German sentiment in England. Anita Brookner had a lonely childhood, although her grandmother and uncle lived with the family, and her parents, nonreligiou...