Dame Hilary Mantel family: Know about husband Gerald McEwen, mother Margaret and stepfather Jack

Dame Hilary Mantel, a two-time Booker Prize-winning author, has died, her publisher said on Friday. She was 70. 

Mantel was best known for her critically acclaimed trilogy Wolf Hall. She died “suddenly yet peacefully” surrounded by close family and friends, publisher HarperCollins said. 

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“We are heartbroken at the death of our beloved author, Dame Hilary Mantel. Our thoughts are with her friends and family, especially her husband, Gerald. This is a devastating loss and we can only be grateful she left us with such a magnificent body of work,” the statement read. 

Mantel won the Booker Prize twice, for “Wolf Hall” in 2009 and its sequel “Bring Up the Bodies” in 2012. Both were adapted for the stage and television.

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The final instalment, “The Mirror and the Light,” was published in 2020.

All about Mantel’s family:

Dame Hilary Mantel was born in Glossop, Derbyshire to Margaret (née Foster) and Henry Thompson. Both her parents were of Irish descent but born in England. Her parents separated and she did not see her father after the age of eleven. Her stepfather’s name was Jack Mantel. 

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Hilary Mantel has two younger brothers , one of whom is known as George who is a photographer.

The author married geologist Gerald McEwen in 1973. They divorced in 1981 but remarried in 1982. McEwen gave up geology to manage his wife’s business.