Claire Harman (writer)

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Claire Harman is a British writer and critic.

As a literary critic and book reviewer Harman has written for the Times Literary Supplement, Literary Review, Evening Standard and the Sunday Telegraph among other publications.[1] Harman is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and has taught English at the Universities of Oxford and Manchester. She has also taught creative writing at Columbia University.[2]

Harman won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in 1989 for her biography of poet Sylvia Townsend Warner.[3] Her subsequent biographical subjects include Fanny Burney and Robert Louis Stevenson.

In 2006 Harman published Jane's Fame, a book about the posthumous fame of novelist Jane Austen.

Harman is currently writing a biography of Charlotte Brontë, due to be published in 2016.[4]

Bibliography

Biographies
Criticism

References

  1. ↑ "Claire Harman - Archive". Retrieved January 12, 2013. 
  2. ↑ "Claire Harman - About". Retrieved January 12, 2013. 
  3. ↑ Booktrust - John Llewellyn Prize archive
  4. ↑ "New Charlotte Bronte biog to Viking". Retrieved January 12, 2013. 

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