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News » Novelist and publisher Alice Thomas Ellis dies

Novelist and publisher Alice Thomas Ellis dies



  Posted on 10/03/2005

Author, publisher and columnist Alice Thomas Ellis died on March 8 from lung cancer, aged 72.

As Alice Thomas Ellis, she was a critically acclaimed novelist, whose fiction included The Sin Eater, The Inn at the Edge of the World, The Fly in the Ointment and other dark, maliciously comic novels. She was also columnist for several years of the popular Home Life series in the Spectator, a weekly dispatch featuring domesticity on the edge of chaos.

As Anna Haycraft, she was the respected fiction editor of Gerald Duckworth & Co, the publishing house run by her husband Colin Haycraft.
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