When she died last week, Hilary Mantel was internationally mourned as one of the great British novelists, a genius, a beloved mentor and cherished friend. But her acclaim came late. Mantel was 57 when Wolf Hall, the first volume of her trilogy about Oliver Cromwell, was published to ecstatic reviews and impressive sales, winning her her first Booker prize and propelling her to the top of the literary pyramid. Before the bestseller, and before the Booker, Mantel had a respectable standing as the author of nine well-reviewed novels, but she was by no means a star. I met her in April 2000 at a conference on “The Novel in Britain: 1950–2000” at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California. S
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