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'Audrey Lilian Barker' (April 13, 1918 - February 21, 2002) was an English novelist and short story writer. During her lifetime, she published ten collections of short stories and eleven novels, one of which - ''John Brown's Body'' - was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1970. She was also the winner of the inaugural Somerset Maugham Prize in 1947, with her collection of short stories called ''Innocents''.