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British writer and critic
Claire Harman
Occupation Writer and biographer Period 1989–present Subject Literary biography, short fiction, poetry Notable works Fanny Burney ; Jane's Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World ; Katherine Mansfield and the Art of Risking Everything Notable awards John Lllewyn Rhys Prize; Forward Prize; Tom Gallon Award
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Claire Harman is a British literary critic and book reviewer who has written for the
Times Literary Supplement ,
Literary Review ,
Evening Standard , the
Sunday Telegraph and 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 taught
creative writing at
Columbia University ,
[2] and been Professor of Creative Writing at
Durham University since 2016.
[3]
Harman won the
John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in 1989 for her biography of poet
Sylvia Townsend Warner .
[4] This was followed with eponymous biographies of
Fanny Burney
[5] in 2000 and
Robert Louis Stevenson in 2005.
[6] In 2009, Harman published Jane's Fame , a book about the posthumous fame of novelist
Jane Austen .
In 2015, Harman published what the Guardian called an 'eminently sensible'
[7] biography of
Charlotte Bronte .
[8] In the same year, she won the
Forward Prize for Best Single Poem of the year for "The Mighty Hudson", first published in the Times Literary Supplement .
[9] In 2016, Harman won the ALCS Tom-Gallon Trust Award for a short story.
[10] This was followed by Murder by the Book; A Sensational Chapter in Victorian Crime
[11] in 2018.
Harman returned to literary biography with the 'innovative'
[12] All Sorts of Lives: Katherine Mansfield and the Art of Risking Everything
[13] in 2023.
Harman was elected a
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2006. She is a judge of the
J.R. Ackerley Prize .
Bibliography
Biographies
Criticism
Other non-fiction
2019 — Murder by the Book: The Crime That Shocked Dickens's London , Knopf
References
^
"Claire Harman - Archive" . Retrieved 4 August 2016 .
^
"Fall 2005 Courses" .
Columbia University . Retrieved 4 August 2016 .
^ University, Durham.
"Professor Claire Harman - Durham University" . www.durham.ac.uk . Retrieved 15 January 2024 .
^
"Previous winners of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize" .
Booktrust . Archived from
the original on 1 April 2012. Retrieved 4 August 2016 .
^ Harman, Claire (20 September 2012).
Fanny Burney: A biography (Text Only) . HarperCollins Publishers.
ISBN
978-0-00-739189-9 .
^ Harman, Claire (27 September 2012).
Robert Louis Stevenson: A Biography (Text Only ed.). HarperCollins Publishers.
ISBN
978-0-00-739259-9 .
^ Hughes, Kathryn (31 October 2015).
"Charlotte Brontë: A Life by Claire Harman review – a well-balanced, unshowy biography" . The Guardian .
ISSN
0261-3077 . Retrieved 15 January 2024 .
^ Harman, Claire (29 October 2015).
Charlotte Brontë: A Life . Penguin Books Limited.
ISBN
978-0-241-96368-5 .
^
"The Forward Prizes for Poetry – the Poetry Society" .
^
"ALCS Tom-Gallon Trust Award - The Society of Authors" . 8 May 2020. Retrieved 15 January 2024 .
^ Harman, Claire (4 February 2020).
Murder by the Book: The Crime That Shocked Dickens's London . Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.
ISBN
978-0-525-43615-7 .
^ Seymour, Miranda (15 January 2024).
"All Sorts of Lives by Claire Harman review — a life of Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf's great rival" .
The Times .
ISSN
0140-0460 . Retrieved 15 January 2024 .
^ Harman, Claire (5 January 2023).
All Sorts of Lives: Katherine Mansfield and the art of risking everything . Random House.
ISBN
978-1-5291-9167-7 .
External links
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