Anita Brookner

Anita Brookner, a British based author of elegiac and stylistic novels was at one point labeled the mistress of gloom. This name was forged due to her depiction of exceedingly bleak and disenchanted lives mostly of women. A daughter of an exceptionally polished immigrant, Ms. Anita Brookner was born and raised in London where she was surrounded by both acquaintances and relatives whom she mostly referred to as fragile and transparent people. Anita lived a very lonely life, despite the fact that their family opened up their homes for the Jewish refugees who were fleeing from the Nazi regime in Germany. The sense of a rather unfulfilled world carried over into her writing career, which she had started while in her 50’s.