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Hazel Holt

1928 – 2015

British writer

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Lived 1928 – 2015 (aged 87). Hazel Holt was a British novelist, biographer and writer.

Hazel Holt (née Young; 3 September 1928 – 23 November 2015) was a British novelist.

She studied at King Edward VI High School for Girls in Birmingham, England, and then Newnham College, Cambridge. She went on to work at the International African Institute in London, where she became acquainted with the novelist Barbara Pym, whose biography she later wrote. She also finished one of Pym's novels after Pym died. Holt wrote My Dear Charlotte, a story that uses the actual language of Jane Austen's letters to her sister Cassandra to construct a Regency murder mystery.

Holt wrote her first novel in her sixties, and was a leading crime novelist. She is best known for her Sheila Malory series. She was also a regular contributor to The Stage for some years. She married Geoffrey Louis Holt (1924–2010) in 1951. Their son, Tom Holt is a novelist.

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Newnham College

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Who was Hazel Holt?

British writer (1928–2015)

When was Hazel Holt born?

Hazel Holt was born on 3 September 1928 in Birmingham.

When did Hazel Holt die?

Hazel Holt died on 23 November 2015.

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Hazel Holt was a novelist, biographer and writer.

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Hazel Holt was British.

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· Wikipedia: Hazel Holt

· Wikidata: Q5687937

· DBpedia: Hazel Holt

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