Ann Schlee

1934–2023

English novelist and children’s writer. Born in Greenwich, Connecticut, she spent her early childhood in the United States, later lived with her parents in Cairo, Sudan and Eritrea, and was educated at boarding school in England and at Somerville College, Oxford. Her children’s novels include The Consul’s Daughter and The Vandal, which won the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize. Her later adult fiction includes The Proprietor and Laing. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1997 and died in November 2023. Rhine Journey was shortlisted for the 1981 Booker Prize.

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