Claire Harman (writer)
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
- 1989 - Sylvia Townsend Warner, Chatto & Windus/Minerva
- 2000 - Fanny Burney, HarperCollins
- 2006 - Robert Louis Stevenson, HarperCollins
- Criticism
- 2007 - Jane's Fame Canongate
References
- ↑ "Claire Harman - Archive". Retrieved January 12, 2013.
- ↑ "Claire Harman - About". Retrieved January 12, 2013.
- ↑ Booktrust - John Llewellyn Prize archive
- ↑ "New Charlotte Bronte biog to Viking". Retrieved January 12, 2013.