Claire Harman (writer) explained
Claire Harman |
Honorific Suffix: | FRSL |
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 |
Awards: | John Lllewyn Rhys Prize; Forward Prize; Tom Gallon Award |
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
- 1989 — Sylvia Townsend Warner, Chatto & Windus/Minerva
- 2000 — Fanny Burney: A biography . HarperCollins Publishers. ISBN 978-0-00-739189-9.
- 2005 — Robert Louis Stevenson, HarperCollins
- 2015 — Charlotte Brontë: A Life, Viking Penguin
- 2016 — Charlotte Brontë: A Fiery Heart, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- 2022 — All Sorts of Lives: Katherine Mansfield and the Art of Risking Everything, Chatto & Windus
Criticism
Other non-fiction
- 2019 — Murder by the Book: The Crime That Shocked Dickens's London, Knopf
Notes and References
- Web site: Claire Harman - Archive . 4 August 2016.
- Web site: Fall 2005 Courses . . 4 August 2016.
- Web site: University . Durham . Professor Claire Harman - Durham University . 2024-01-15 . www.durham.ac.uk . en-gb.
- Web site: Previous winners of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize . . https://web.archive.org/web/20120401030033/http://www.booktrust.org.uk/jlr-archive . 1 April 2012 . dead . 4 August 2016.
- Book: Harman, Claire . Fanny Burney: A biography (Text Only) . 2012-09-20 . HarperCollins Publishers . 978-0-00-739189-9 . en.
- Book: Harman, Claire . Robert Louis Stevenson: A Biography . 2012-09-27 . Text Only . HarperCollins Publishers . 978-0-00-739259-9 . en.
- News: Hughes . Kathryn . 2015-10-31 . Charlotte Brontë: A Life by Claire Harman review – a well-balanced, unshowy biography . 2024-01-15 . The Guardian . en-GB . 0261-3077.
- Book: Harman, Claire . Charlotte Brontë: A Life . 2015-10-29 . Penguin Books Limited . 978-0-241-96368-5 . en.
- Web site: The Forward Prizes for Poetry – the Poetry Society.
- Web site: 2020-05-08 . ALCS Tom-Gallon Trust Award - The Society of Authors . 2024-01-15 . en-GB.
- Book: Harman, Claire . Murder by the Book: The Crime That Shocked Dickens's London . 2020-02-04 . Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group . 978-0-525-43615-7 . en.
- News: Seymour . Miranda . 2024-01-15 . All Sorts of Lives by Claire Harman review — a life of Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf's great rival . . 2024-01-15 . en . 0140-0460.
- Book: Harman, Claire . All Sorts of Lives: Katherine Mansfield and the art of risking everything . 2023-01-05 . Random House . 978-1-5291-9167-7 . en.