Best Of: Hilary Mantel / British Vogue's Edward Enninful

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🗓️ 1 October 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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We remember British author Hilary Mantel who died Sept. 22. Mantel was best known for her trilogy of novels about Thomas Cromwell, the political fixer for Henry VIII. In 2012 she spoke with Terry Gross about her love of history. "Instead of thinking there was a wall between the living and the dead, I thought there was a very thin veil. It was almost as if they'd just gone into the next room."

Also, we'll talk with Edward Enninful, editor-in-chief of British Vogue, about bringing diversity into the fashion industry. As a child, Enninful emigrated from Ghana to England. Early in his career, he was told Black women don't sell magazines. He proved that was false.

Maureen Corrigan reviews Less is Lost, the follow up to Andrew Sean Greer's Pulitzer Prize-winning satirical novel Less.

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0:00.0	From WHY and Philadelphia, this is Fresh Air Weekend.
0:05.8	I'm Sam Brigger, Infra Terry Gross.
0:08.1	Today, we'll remember author Hillary Mantell who died last month.
0:12.2	Mantell was best known for her trilogy of novels about Thomas Cromwell, the political
0:16.0	fixer for Henry VIII.
0:18.4	Mantell was the first woman to win Britain's top literary award, the Booker Prize twice,
0:23.2	for the first two books in the trilogy, Wolf Paul, and Bring Up the Bodies.
0:27.6	She'll talk about her long struggle with endometriosis.
0:31.0	Also, we'll talk with Edward Ennunful, editor-in-chief of British Vogue about bringing diversity
0:36.3	into the fashion industry.
0:38.4	He'd been told black women don't sell magazines.
0:41.1	He proved that false.
0:43.6	And Maureen Corrigan reviews Les's Lost, the follow-up to Andrew Shawn Greer's Pulitzer
0:48.1	Prize-winning satirical novel Les.
0:55.4	This is Fresh Air Weekend.
0:56.8	I'm Sam Brigger, sitting in Frateri Gross.
0:59.4	Today, we'll remember author Hillary Mantell who died last month at the age of 70.
1:05.0	Mantell was best known for her trilogy of novels about Thomas Cromwell, the political fixer
1:09.5	for Henry VIII.
1:11.4	She was the first woman to win the Booker Prize twice, for the first two of her Cromwell
1:15.8	books, Wolf Paul, and Bring Up the Bodies.
1:19.1	The third novel, The Mirror and the Light, was published in 2020 and was long listed for
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