Claire Harman
Claire Harman (born 1957 ) is a British literary critic and author of several biographies.
Life
Claire Harman started as an editor at Carcanet Press for Michael Schmidt (* 1947). She was co-editor of the literary magazine PN Review in Manchester . She writes literary reviews for the Times Literary Supplement , Literary Review , Evening Standard and The Sunday Telegraph, among others . Harman conducted research on Sylvia Townsend Warner and has written several biographies on English and American literature, including Jane Austen , Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Burney . Harman won the 1989 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for her biography of Sylvia Townsend Warner. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature .
Harman writes poetry and received the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem in 2015 .
Fonts (selection)
- (Ed.): Sylvia Townsend Warner: Collected Poems . Viking Press, New York 1985.
- Sylvia Townsend Warner: A Biography . Chatto & Windus, London 1989.
- (Ed.): The Diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner . Chatto & Windus, London 1994.
- Fanny Burney: A Biography . HarperCollins, London 2000.
- Myself and the Other Fellow: A Life of Robert Louis Stevenson . HarperCollins, New York 2005.
- Jane's Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World . Canongate, London 2009.
- Charlotte Brontë: A Life . London: Viking, 2015.
Web links
- Literature by and about Claire Harman in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Claire Harman in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Claire Harman , website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Claire Harman Brabbling with watery voice , review in PN Review, 1983
- ↑ Shahidha Bari : Rochester and the Rest , Review, in: Financial Times , October 24, 2015, p. 12
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Harman, Claire |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British literary critic, biographer and poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1957 |