Short answers, pulled from the story.
Hilary Mary Thompson was born on the 6th of July 1952 in Glossop, Derbyshire. She grew up in a Roman Catholic household in a mill village in Romiley, Cheshire, after her family relocated to escape gossip.
Hilary Mantel suffered from a severe form of endometriosis that doctors initially misdiagnosed as a psychiatric disorder. The condition required a surgical menopause at the age of twenty-seven, leaving her unable to have children.
Hilary Mantel won the Booker Prize for Wolf Hall in 2009. The novel was the first favorite since 2002 to win the award and accounted for 45% of the sales of all the nominated books.
Hilary Mantel died on the 22nd of September 2022 at a hospital in Exeter. Her death resulted from complications of a stroke that occurred three days earlier.
Hilary Mantel was elevated to Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2014 for services to literature. She had previously been awarded the Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2006.