Hilary Mantel Husband: Who Is Gerald McEwen?

Gerald McEwen is the husband of late Hilary Mantel whom she married in 1973.

Gerald is a geologist by profession but he later abandoned his work to assist his wife in her thriving career.

The couple lived together for 5 decades but they didn’t have it all smooth in their marriage. They had divorced in 1981 and remarried the following year..

Who Was Hilary Mantel?

Hilary Mantel was a British writer born on July 6, 1952, and well known for her award-winning masterpiece, Wolf Hall.

Mantel was a world-acclaimed writer, whose works spanned across historical fiction, personal memoirs and short stories.

Hilary Mantel Career

Mantel authored twelve novels, two collections of short stories, a personal memoir, and numerous articles and opinion pieces, during her lifetime.

Mantel published her first novel, Every Day is Mother’s Day, in 1985.

Her book, Wolf Hall trilogy, won her two Booker Prizes and sold over 1 million copies in the UK alone.

She won her second Booker Prize after the release of her other book, Bring Up The Bodies, which also won her the Costa Book of The Year Award in 2012.

She was one of the critics of the film, The Spectator, for four years and helped review a number of papers and magazines in Britain and the United States.

Mantel died on September 22, 2022, following a stroke. She was aged 70.

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