Claire Harman began her career in publishing, at Carcanet Press and the poetry magazine PN Review, where she was coordinating editor.
Her first book, a biography of the writer Sylvia Townsend Warner, was published in 1989 and won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for ‘a writer of growing stature’ under the age of 35. She has since published biographies of Fanny Burney and Robert Louis Stevenson and edited works by Stevenson and Warner. She writes short stories for radio and publication and was runner-up for the V.S.Pritchett prize for short fiction in 2008.
Books in order of publication:
1989 — Sylvia Townsend Warner, Chatto & Windus/Minerva
2000 — Fanny Burney: A biography . HarperCollins Publishers.
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
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