Hilary Mantel Children: Did Hilary Mantel Have Kids?

Hilary Mantel never had children of her own because she suffered from chronic endometriosis.

She had also batted with mental health illnesses, which was treated with antipsychotic drugs.

She had undergone a surgical menopause at the age of 27 and her situation was though devastating, but inspired most of her writings.

“You’ve thought your way through questions of fertility and menopause and what it means to be without children because it all happened catastrophically”, Mantel had once said.

Who Was Hilary Mantel?

Hilary Mantel was a British writer born on July 6, 1952, and well known for her award-winning masterpiece, Wolf Hall.

Mantel was a world-acclaimed writer, whose works spanned across historical fiction, personal memoirs and short stories.

Hilary Mantel Career

Mantel authored twelve novels, two collections of short stories, a personal memoir, and numerous articles and opinion pieces, during her lifetime.

Mantel published her first novel, Every Day is Mother’s Day, in 1985.

Her book, Wolf Hall trilogy, won her two Booker Prizes and sold over 1 million copies in the UK alone.

She won her second Booker Prize after the release of her other book, Bring Up The Bodies, which also won her the Costa Book of The Year Award in 2012.

Mantel died on September 22, 2022, following a stroke. She was aged 70.