The novelist Olivia Manning died at the age of 72. Here is all you want to know, and more!
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An English fiction writer, poet, and literary reviewer, she is most remembered for her Balkan and Levant novel trilogies, which are known, collectively, as the Fortunes of War series. Common themes of her work include colonialism, war, alienation, and feminism.
She met her husband, BBC radio producer R.D. “Reggie” Smith, in 1939. Despite infidelities on both sides, the marriage lasted until Manning’s death.