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In 1983, A. S. Byatt began her full-time writing career after spending 18 years working as a literary critic and teacher. She is an English novelist, poet, and critic, best known for her Booker Prize-winning novel Possession (1990). Byatt has also written a number of other novels, including The Virgin in the Garden (1978), Still Life (1985), and Babel Tower (1996).