Eleanor Clark
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Eleanor Clark (July 6, 1913 – February 16, 1996) was an American writer. Clark was born in Los Angeles.[1] She attended Vassar College in the 1930s and was involved with the literary magazine Con Spirito there, along with Elizabeth Bishop, Mary McCarthy, and her sister Eunice Clark. She married Robert Penn Warren in 1952 and lived in Fairfield, Connecticut, with him and their two children, Rosanna and Gabriel.
Her book The Oysters of Locmariaquer received the National Book Award, for Arts and Letters, in 1965. She was also the author of two other works of nonfiction, Rome and a Villa and Eyes, Etc., and the novels The Bitter Box, Baldur's Gate, and Camping Out.
Clark died in Boston in 1996.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ a b Thomas, Robert McG., Jr. (February 19, 1996). "Eleanor Clark is Dead at 82 - A Ruminative Travel Essayist". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/1996/02/19/nyregion/eleanor-clark-is-dead-at-82-a-ruminative-travel-essayist.html?sec=&spon=&scp=1&sq=eleanor%20clark%201996&st=cse. Retrieved May 30, 2010.
[edit] External links
- Works by or about Eleanor Clark in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
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