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Alice Thomas Ellis (born Ann Margaret Lindholm, 9 September 1932 – 8 March 2005) was an English writer and essayist born in Liverpool. She wrote numerous novels and some non-fiction, including cookery books.
Mar 12, 2005 · March 12, 2005. Alice Thomas Ellis, a British novelist celebrated for her witty, unflinching dissections of middle-class domestic life, died on Tuesday in London. She was 72 and lived in...
Alice Thomas Ellis has produced a distinguised body of work that is an important contribution to the Catholic literary tradition. Although library shelves are filled with novels by disgruntled Catholics who wrote fiction that depicts what they dislike about the Church, her achievement is completely different.
Alice Thomas Ellis was short-listed for the Booker prize for The 27th Kingdom. She is the author of A Welsh Childhood (autobiography), Fairy Tales and several other novels including The Summerhouse Trilogy, made into a movie starring Jeanne Moreau and Joan Plowright.
Alice Thomas Ellis was born in Liverpool, England. She wrote numerous novels and some non-fiction, including cookery books. She spent some of her childhood as an evacuee in North Wales, a period she wrote about in A Welsh Childhood. In 1956, she married Colin Haycraft, owner of the publishing company, Duckworth.
Description. The late Catholic author and commentator Alice Thomas Ellis wrote twelve novels and numerous articles. Although she has been perceived as a somewhat controversial figure for her...
Biography. Novelist Alice Thomas Ellis (Anna Margaret Haycraft) was born in Liverpool in 1932. She grew up in north Wales and was educated at the Liverpool School of Art. She worked as an editor for the publishers Duckworth and as a journalist. She wrote for The Universe (1989-91), The Catholic Herald and The Oldie, and wrote the 'Home Life ...
