Sarah Waters is a British novelist. She is best known for her first novel,
Tipping the Velvet, as well the novels that followed, including
Affinity,
Fingersmith, and
The Night Watch.
Waters attended university, earning degrees in English literature. Before writing novels Waters worked as an academic, earning a doctorate and teaching. Waters went directly from her doctoral thesis to her first novel. It was during the process of writing her thesis that she thought she would write a novel; she bega…
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