Sarah Waters

1966–

Welsh novelist born in Neyland, Pembrokeshire. She studied at the University of Kent and Lancaster University and completed a doctorate on lesbian and gay historical fiction at Queen Mary University of London, then worked as an academic. Her first three novels, Tipping the Velvet, Affinity and Fingersmith, are set in Victorian England, while The Night Watch moves to 1940s London. Fingersmith and The Night Watch were both shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. The Little Stranger (2009), a ghost story set in a decaying Warwickshire country house after the Second World War, was shortlisted for the 2009 Man Booker Prize.

Timeline of Sarah Waters’s life

Works

• Tipping the Velvet (1998)
• Fingersmith (2002)
• The Night Watch (2006)
• The Little Stranger (2009)

Prizes

• The Little Stranger — The Booker Prize 2009: Shortlist, Longlist
• The Night Watch — The Booker Prize 2006: Shortlist, Longlist
• Fingersmith — The Booker Prize 2002: Shortlist, Longlist
• Tipping the Velvet — Betty Trask Prize and Awards 1999: Awards