LONDON: Hilary Mantel, the best-selling British author known for her award-winning Wolf Hall historical trilogy, died on Thursday at the age of 70, her publisher said on Friday.
Mantel twice won the Man Booker Prize for Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies, the first two books in the trilogy about the rise and fall of Thomas Cromwell in the court of King Henry VIII. The final book in the series, The Mirror & the Light, was published in March 2020.
