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Sarah Waters is a British novelist. She is best known for her first novel, Tipping the Velvet, as well the novels that followed, including Affinity, Fingersmith, and The Night Watch.

Waters attended university, earning degrees in English literature. Before writMore
Sarah Waters is a British novelist. She is best known for her first novel, Tipping the Velvet, as well the novels that followed, including Affinity, Fingersmith, and The Night Watch.

Waters attended university, earning degrees in English literature. Before writing novels Waters worked as an academic, earning a doctorate and teaching. Waters went directly from her doctoral thesis to her first novel. It was during the process of writing her thesis that she thought she would write a novel; she began as soon as the thesis was complete. Less

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Author Details

Born in Neyland, Pembrokeshire, Wales, The United Kingdom on July 21, 1966.
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Genre
Literature & Fiction, Historical Fiction, Gay & Lesbian
Influences
Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Mary Shelley, the Brontës, John Fowle ...more

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The best thing to do was to brazen it out, throw your head back, walk with a swagger...
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