How A.S. Byatt’s northern identity and anger over climate change informed her fiction
How A.S. Byatt’s northern identity and anger over climate change informed her fiction: A.S. Byatt’s highbrow fiction has a vast, international appeal. The writer, who died in November, was known for her voracious appetite for knowledge and her insatiable curiosity. Inspiration for her work draws from as diverse sources as Elizabeth I, Norse mythology, Amazonian …