Bernice Rubens was born in Cardiff, Wales in July 1923. She began writing at the age of 35, when her children started nursery school. Her second novel, Madame Sousatzka (1962), was filmed by John Schlesinger, with Shirley MacLaine in the leading role, in 1988. Her fourth novel, The Elected Member, won the 1970 Booker prize. She was shortlisted for the same prize again in 1978 for A Five Year Sentence. Her last novel, The Sergeants’ Tale, was published in 2003. She was an honorary vice-president of International PEN and served as a Booker judge in 1986. Bernice Rubens died in 2004 aged 81.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Set on Edge (1960)
Madame Sousatzka (1962)
Mate in Three (1966)
The Elected Member (1969)
Sunday Best (1971)
Go Tell the Lemming (1973)
I Sent a Letter To My Love (1975)
The Ponsonby Post (1977)
A Five-Year Sentence (1978)
Spring Sonata (1979)
Birds of Passage (1981)
Brothers (1983)
Mr Wakefield’s Crusade (1985)
Our Father (1987)
Kingdom Come (1990)
A Solitary Grief (1991)
Mother Russia (1992)
Autobiopsy (1993)
Hijack (1993)
Yesterday in the Back Lane (1995)
The Waiting Game (1997)
I, Dreyfus (1999)
Milwaukee (2001)
Nine Lives (2002)
The Sergeants’ Tale (2003)
When I Grow Up (2005)
