Ms. Mantel was born Hilary Mary Thompson on July 6, 1952, to Henry and Margaret Thompson in Glossop, a village in Derbyshire, and grew up in an Irish Catholic family.

Hilary Mantel, the Booker Prize-winning author who turned Tudor power politics into page-turning fiction in the acclaimed “Wolf Hall” trilogy of historical novels, has died. She was 70.

Few screenwriters working today are as adept at exploring the ins and outs of power-who has it, who wants it, and who will do ...

Costume designer Joanna Eatwell guides us through the Tudor fashion in the sequel to 2015's saga about the court of Henry ...

Hilary Mantel jokes that writer’s block is the last thing that afflicts her. “I’m only afflicted by so many ideas,” the award-laden British author told The Daily Beast.

A decade after winning acclaim for the authenticity it brought to Tudor dramas, Wolf Hall returns with a series based on the ...

The cast and crew reflect on the extraordinary storytelling talents of the late Hilary Mantel. "I feel like I'm almost saying, 'Hi, Hilary, we're carrying on with it, don't worry.'" The cast and ...

Viewers are raving about the BBC's adaptation of Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall novels which are available to stream on the BBC iPlayer or purchase to watch on Prime Video. The story is a fictionalised ...

"We could have all just said, ‘Nah, I don't want to do it,'" Damian Lewis tells Gold Derby about returning to the Tudor court ...

When Wolf Hall premiered in 2015, combining the first two books in Mantel’s trilogy, The Mirror & the Light book hadn’t yet been finished. Mantel was open about the fact that she found writing ...