Jump to content

Claire Harman (writer)

Checked
Page protected with pending changes
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Claire Harman

FRSL
OccupationWriter and biographer
Period1989–present
SubjectLiterary biography, short fiction, poetry
Notable worksFanny Burney; Jane's Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World; Katherine Mansfield and the Art of Risking Everything
Notable awardsJohn Lllewyn Rhys Prize; Forward Prize; Tom Gallon Award
Website
www.claireharman.com

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

[edit]

Biographies

[edit]

Criticism

[edit]

Other non-fiction

[edit]
  • 2019 — Murder by the Book: The Crime That Shocked Dickens's London, Knopf

References

[edit]
  1. ^ "Claire Harman - Archive". Retrieved 4 August 2016.
  2. ^ "Fall 2005 Courses". Columbia University. Retrieved 4 August 2016.
  3. ^ University, Durham. "Professor Claire Harman - Durham University". www.durham.ac.uk. Retrieved 15 January 2024.
  4. ^ "Previous winners of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize". Booktrust. Archived from the original on 1 April 2012. Retrieved 4 August 2016.
  5. ^ Harman, Claire (20 September 2012). Fanny Burney: A biography (Text Only). HarperCollins Publishers. ISBN 978-0-00-739189-9.
  6. ^ Harman, Claire (27 September 2012). Robert Louis Stevenson: A Biography (Text Only ed.). HarperCollins Publishers. ISBN 978-0-00-739259-9.
  7. ^ 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.
  8. ^ Harman, Claire (29 October 2015). Charlotte Brontë: A Life. Penguin Books Limited. ISBN 978-0-241-96368-5.
  9. ^ "The Forward Prizes for Poetry – the Poetry Society".
  10. ^ "ALCS Tom-Gallon Trust Award - The Society of Authors". 8 May 2020. Retrieved 15 January 2024.
  11. ^ 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.
  12. ^ 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.
  13. ^ 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.
[edit]


UK flag icon Stub icon

This article about a writer or poet from the United Kingdom is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Claire_Harman_(writer)&oldid=1220215687"