Hilary Mantel Cause of Death, Illness & Net Worth
NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 09: Hilary Mantel attends the openning Night of 'Wolf Hall' at Winter Garden Theatre on April 9, 2015 in New York City. (Photo by Noam Galai/WireImage)
Hilary Mantel was a British writer whose work includes historical fiction, personal memoirs, and short stories.
Age
Hilary Mantel was born on 6 July 1952. She died at age of 70 years old on 22 September 2022.
Education
In 1970, she began her studies at the London School of Economics to read law. She transferred to the University of Sheffield and graduated with a Bachelor of Jurisprudence in 1973.
Career
Her first novel, Every Day is Mother’s Day was published in 1985. She went on to write twelve novels, two collections of short stories, a personal memoir, and numerous articles and opinion pieces.
Mantel won the Booker Prize twice: the first was for the 2009 novel Wolf Hall, a fictional account of Thomas Cromwell’s rise to power in the court of Henry VIII, and the second was for its 2012 sequel Bring Up the Bodies. The third installment of the Cromwell trilogy, The Mirror & the Light, was longlisted for the same prize.
Personal Life
Mantel married geologist Gerald McEwen in 1973. They divorced in 1981 but remarried in 1982. McEwen gave up geology to manage his wife’s business. They lived in Budleigh Salterton, Devon
Illness
During her twenties, Mantel had a debilitating and painful illness. She was initially diagnosed with a psychiatric illness, hospitalized, and treated with antipsychotic drugs, which reportedly produced psychotic symptoms. As a consequence, Mantel refrained from seeking help from doctors for some years. Finally, in Botswana and desperate, she consulted a medical textbook and realized she was probably suffering from a severe form of endometriosis, a diagnosis confirmed by doctors in London.
The condition and (at the time) necessary surgery – surgical menopause at the age of 27 – left her unable to have children and continued to disrupt her life. She later said, “you’ve thought your way through questions of fertility and menopause and what it means to be without children because it all happened catastrophically”. This led Mantel to see the problematized woman’s body as a theme in her writing. She later became patron of the Endometriosis SHE Trust.
Cause of Death
Mantel died on 22 September 2022 at the age of 70.
Net Worth
Her net worth was $85 Million.
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