Career
In 1967 she became the first woman to hold the Slade professorship at Cambridge University. She was promoted to Reader at the Courtauld Institute of Art in 1977, where she worked until her retirement in 1988.
Brookner published her first novel, A Start In Life in 1981, at the age of 53. Since then she has published a novel approximately every year.
Brookner has not married; and took care of her parents as they aged.
In 1990 she was made a CBE (Commander of the British Empire). She is a Fellow of King's College London and of Murray Edwards College, Cambridge.
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