Fraser, Antonia (Pakenham) (1932- )

English author. She has published authoritative biographies, including Mary Queen of Scots (1969) and The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1992), and wider historical works such as The Weaker Vessel: Woman's Lot in Seventeenth-Century England (1984), and Faith and Treason: The Story of the Gunpowder Plot (1986). She has also written a series of popular detective novels featuring investigator Jemima Shore.

She is married to the English dramatist Harold Pinter, and is the daughter of British Labour politician Frank Longford.