   dame beryl margaret bainbridge dbe (21 november 1932 â 2 july 2010)frontispiece of injury time by beryl bainbridge,1991 penguin edition.the profile: beryl bainbridge was an english writer from liverpool. she was primarily known for her works of psychological fiction, often set among the english working classes. bainbridge won the whitbread awards prize for best novel in 1977 and 1996; she was nominated five times for the booker prize. she was described in 2007 as "a national treasure". in 2008, the times newspaper named bainbridge among their list of "the 50 greatest british writers since 1945". ==biography== beryl bainbridge was born in liverpool, lancashire and brought up in nearby formby. her parents were richard bainbridge and winifred baines.nndb profile although she gave her date of birth in who's who and elsewhere as 21 november 1934, she was born in 1932 and her birth was registered in the first quarter of 1933. when german former prisoner of war harry arno franz wrote to her in november 1947, he mentioned her 15th birthday. she enjoyed writing, and by the age of 10 she was keeping a diary. she had elocution lessons and, when she was 11, appeared on the [http://www.bu.edu/phpbin/archives-cc/app/details.php?
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