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11/03/2005
British novelist Alice Thomas Ellis dies
Liverpool-born author Alice Thomas Ellis has died from cancer, aged 72.
She died on Tuesday, according to a spokeswoman for her agent, and had been suffering from lung cancer.
Her real name was Anna Haycraft but it was under the Thomas Ellis pseudonym that she wrote more than 20 books.
Her first novel was 1977's The Sin Eater and she also wrote the Home Life column for The Spectator magazine and a traditionalist column in the Catholic Herald.
Thomas Ellis' other novels included Birds of the Air (1980); The 27th Kingdom, which was shortlisted for the 1982 Booker Prize; Unexplained Laughter (1985); The Inn at the End of the World for which she won a Writers' Guild Best Fiction Award in 1990, and Fairy Tale (1994).
Her husband, publisher Colin Haycraft, died in 1995. She is survived by four sons and a daughter.
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