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Scarlett Thomas (born 1972 in Hammersmith) is an English postmodernist author. She has written eight novels, including ''The End of Mr. Y'' and ''PopCo'', and teaches Creative Writing at the University of Kent.〔(About Scarlett Thomas )〕 ==Biography== She is the daughter of Francesca Ashurst,〔(Acknowledgments for ''The End of Mr. Y'' )〕 and attended a variety of schools, including a state junior school in Barking, and a boarding school for eighteen months. During her teenage years she was involved in demonstrations against the Poll Tax, nuclear weapons and the first Gulf War. She studied for her A levels at Chelmsford College and achieved a First in a degree in Cultural Studies at the University of East London from 1992-1995.〔(Archived biography and interview from official website )〕 Her first three novels feature Lily Pascale, an English literature lecturer who solves murder mysteries. Each of the succeeding novels is independent of the others In 2008 she was a member of the Edinburgh International Film Festival jury, along with Director Iain Softley and presided over by actor Danny Huston〔(Edinburgh Winners - Eurostar's Somers Town, Man on a Wire, Herzog's Encounters at End of the World )〕 She has taught Creative Writing at the University of Kent since 2004, and has previously taught at Dartmouth Community College, South East Essex College and the University of East London. 〔(Scarlett Thomas - School of English )〕 She reviews books for the ''Literary Review'', the ''Independent on Sunday'', and ''Scotland on Sunday''. Scarlett Thomas shares with Ariel, the protagonist in ''The End of Mr. Y'', a wish to know everything:〔(Bookseller Interview )〕 "I'm very much someone who wants to work out the answers. I want to know what's outside the universe, what's at the end of time, and is there a God? But I think fiction's great for that--it's very close to philosophy." Her book, ''Our Tragic Universe'', was published in May 2010 in the UK, and in September 2010 in the USA. It was originally to be titled ''Death of the Author.''〔(When pop goes postmodern: Scarlett Thomas (LA Times) )〕〔(Amazon UK - Scarlett Thomas 'Our Tragic Universe' )〕 She recently studied towards an MSc in ethnobotany, and her ninth novel, ''The Seed Collectors''〔 is due out in 2015. She is currently working on a book called "41-0" about her year of tennis. 〔(Love match: how I finally got to play at Wimbledon )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Scarlett Thomas」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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