Pat Barker
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Pat Barker (born May 8, 1943) is an English writer and historian. She published her first novel, Union Street, in 1982 and has since won critical acclaim for her First World War series, the Regeneration trilogy, which documents the wartime experiences of the poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, the psychiatrist W. H. R. Rivers, and the fictional protagonist, Lt. Billy Prior. The final book in the trilogy, The Ghost Road, won the Booker Prize upon its publication.
In 1965 Barker completed a degree in international history at the London School of Economics[1]. Barker is married and lives in Durham, England.
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Books
- Union Street (1982)
- Blow Your House Down (1984)
- The Century's Daughter (also known as Liza's England; 1986)
- The Man Who Wasn't There (1989)
- Regeneration (1990)
- The Eye in the Door (1993)
- The Ghost Road (1995)
- Another World (1998)
- Border Crossing (2001)
- Double Vision (2003)
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