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British novelist, critic and playwright, who was one of the most entertaining, acute and witty critics of the 1960s and 1970s. Born Brigid Antonia Brophy in London, England, on June 12, 1929; died in Louth, Lincolnshire, on August 7, 1995; daughter of John Brophy and Charis Grundy Brophy; educated at St.

Paul's Girls' School; awarded Jubilee Scholarship and studied classics at St. Hugh's College, Oxford; married Sir Michael Levey (author and former director of the National Gallery, London), 1954; children: one daughter, Katharine.

Awards:

Cheltenham Literary Festival Prize for first novel (1954); fellow of Royal Society of Literature (1973).

Selected publications:

Hackenfeller's Ape (Hart-Davis, 1953); The Finishing Touch (Secker and Warburg, 1963); Mozart the Dramatist (Harcourt, 1964); Don't Never Forget (Cape, 1966); (with Michael Levey and Charles Osborne) Fifty Works of Literature We Could Do Without (Rapp and Carroll, 1967); Bea