Claire Harman

Claire Harman's first book, a biography of the writer
Sylvia Townsend Warner, won the prestigious John Llewellyn
Rhys Prize in England, and her second, Fanny Burney: A
Biography, was shortlisted for England's Whitbread Award.
She has published acclaimed editions of Robert Louis
Stevenson's essays, poems, and short stories. Harman
teaches at Columbia University's School of the Arts. She
lives in New York City and in Oxford, England.