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Pat Barker
Patricia Mary W. "Pat" Barker CBE, FRSL (née Drake; born 8 May 1943) is an English writer and novelist. She has won many awards for her fiction, which centres on themes of memory, trauma, survival and recovery. Her work is described as direct, blunt and plainspoken.〔Carola Dibbell, ("Work Ethics" ), ''Voice Literary Supplement'', October 1981.〕 In 2012, ''The Observer'' named the Regeneration Trilogy as one of "The 10 best historical novels".
==Personal life==
Barker was born to a working-class family in Thornaby-on-Tees in the North Riding of Yorkshire, England, on 8 May 1943. Her mother Moyra died in 2000,〔 and her father's identity is unknown. According to ''The Times'', Moyra became pregnant "after a drunken night out while in the Wrens", and, in a climate where illegitimacy was regarded with shame, told people that the resulting child was her sister, rather than her daughter. They lived with Barker's grandmother Alice and step-grandfather William, until her mother married and moved out when Barker was seven. Barker could have joined her mother, she told ''The Guardian'' in 2003, but chose to stay with her grandmother "because of love of her, and because my stepfather didn't warm to me, nor me to him".〔 Her grandparents ran a fish and chip shop which failed and the family was, she told ''The Times'' in 2007, "poor as church mice; we were living on National Assistance – 'on the pancrack', as my grandmother called it".〔 At the age of eleven she won a place at grammar school, attending King James Grammar School in Knaresborough and Grangefield Grammar School in Stockton-on-Tees.〔
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Barker, who says she has always been an avid reader, went on to study international history at the London School of Economics.〔("Celebrated Alumni: UK", ''www.lse.ac.uk'' (2007) ) Retrieved 17 January 2008.〕 After graduating in 1965, she returned home to nurse her grandmother, who died in 1971. In 1969, she was introduced, in a pub, to David Barker, a zoology professor and neurologist 20 years her senior, who left his marriage to live with her. They had two children together, and were married in 1978, after his divorce. Their daughter Anna Ralph is now a novelist. Barker was widowed when David died in January 2009.
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