Hilary Mantel was a critically acclaimed British writer, world famous for wonderful historical fiction. Her notable works included “Wolf Hall,” “Bring Up the Bodies,” and “Beyond Black.”

Her education included studying law at the London School of Economics and receiving a Bachelor of Jurisprudence from the University of Sheffield.

However, upon graduation she worked at a geriatric hospital, and then as a sales assistant in a department store.

And because of her husband’s work, she lived abroad for many years in Botswana and Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

She struggled as a writer in the beginning but she never gave up, and when the “Wolf Hall” trilogy was published, she began to win awards and be read world-wide.

It was said that her writing as a historical novelist had astonishing power – meaning, that Hilary Mantel “grounds and anchors her action so convincingly in the time she describes, while drawing so easily upon the past and hinting so indirectly at the future, put her in the very first rank of historical novelists.”

Throughout her life she suffered badly from many health problems, and she found writing a form of release and a way of transcending her troubles.

Hilary Mantel, forever at peace as her words live on.