Claire Harman (writer)

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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]

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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. [14] She is a judge of the J.R. Ackerley Prize.

Bibliography

Biographies

Criticism

Other non-fiction

References

  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.
  14. ↑ "Harman, Claire". Royal Society of Literature. 1 September 2023. Retrieved 3 July 2025.
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