Beryl Bainbridge.

Dame Beryl Margaret Bainbridge DBE (21 November 1932 – 2 July 2010) was an English writer from Liverpool.

- Beryl Bainbridge on the art of facing death - Features - Books - The Independent

- Obituary: Beryl Bainbridge, acclaimed British novelist, dies at 77
"In 1968, Ms. Bainbridge had traveled across the United States by car and ended up in Los Angeles the night Kennedy was killed. It was just another of the strange conjunctions that animated her fiction and her life."