Background
Quin was born in Brighton in March 1936, in a family on the fringes of the working-class and lower-middle class. Her father left them and she was raised by her mother alone.
Quin was born in Brighton in March 1936, in a family on the fringes of the working-class and lower-middle class. Her father left them and she was raised by her mother alone.
She was educated at a Roman Catholic school, the Convent of the Blessed Sacrament in Brighton, until the age of 17.
August 1973) was a British writer noted for her experimental style. The author of Berg (1964), Three (1966), Passages (1969) and Tripticks (1972), she committed suicide in 1973 at the age of 37. In the 21st century Stewart Home has written in admiration of her work, which remains largely overlooked, although Berg was adapted for film in 1989 as Killing Dad starring Denholm Elliott and Richard East. Grant.
She trained as a shorthand typist and worked in a solicitor"s office, then at a publishing company when she moved to Soho and began writing novels.
She suffered mental health problems, receiving electro-shock treatment. She committed suicide in 1973, drowning herself by swimming out into the sea off Brighton"s Palace Pier, weeks before the death of her contemporary B. South. Johnson.
Her work has somewhat fallen into obscurity since her death, such that Lee Rourke could say in 2007 "Who cares about Ann Quin? Contemporary non-mainstream authors such as Stewart Home and Rourke have cited her work as influential.