Diane Setterfield (born 22 August 1964) is an English author whose 2006

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, '' The Thirteenth Tale '', became a ''New York Times'' No. 1 best-seller. she won the 2007 Quill Award, Debut author of the year, for this novel. It is written in the

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tradition, with echoes of ''

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'' and ''

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''. The rights were acquired by David Heyman at Heyday Films and the novel was adapted for television by Christopher Hampton. Starring

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, Olivia Colman, and

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The Thirteenth Tale ''The Thirteenth Tale'' (2006) by Diane Setterfield is a gothic suspense novel, the author's first published book. Plot Vida Winter, a famous novelist in England, has evaded journalists' questions about her past, refusing to answer their in ...

'' was televised on BBC2 in December 2013. Diane Setterfield's second novel, ''Bellman & Black'', was published in 2013 by Emily Bestler Books/Atria in the United States and by Orion in the UK. Her third novel, Once Upon a River, was published in 2018. Before writing, Setterfield studied

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at the

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, earning a bachelor of arts in 1986 and a PhD in 1993. Setterfield's PhD is on "autobiographical structures in André Gide's early fiction." Setterfield taught at numerous schools as well as privately before leaving academia in the late 1990s. Setterfield was raised in

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. She lives in Oxford, England.

Novels

(2006) *Bellman & Black (2013) * Once Upon a River (2018)

References

External links

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Biography at Book Browse
{{DEFAULTSORT:Setterfield, Diane 21st-century English novelists 1964 births Living people Writers of Gothic fiction English women novelists 21st-century English women writers Alumni of the University of Bristol