By the time she won the Booker for her fourth novel, she had already established herself as a distinguished scholar of French art and had become the first woman to hold the Slade Professorship of Fine Art at the University of Cambridge. But literary recognition brought an unwelcome change in her professional life, according to Lee, who said that some Courtauld colleagues viewed Brookner’s success with resentment, particularly as universities faced financial pressures. In the biography, Lee writes that many witnesses said that “far from rejoicing in her success with the Booker, certain colleagues, especially the men, were jealous and resentful”....
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