High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Wolf Hall (2009) is a multi-award winning historical novel by English author Hilary Mantel, published by Fourth Estate. Set in the period from 1500 to 1535, Wolf Hall is a fictionalized biography documenting the rapid rise to power of Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex in the court of Henry VIII of England. The novel won both the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award.