The most authoritative, comprehensive, perceptive biography of R. L. Stevenson to date, using for the first time his collected correspondence (unavailable to previous writers). The most authoritative, comprehensive, perceptive biography to date of Robert Louis Stevenson, the author of Treasure Island. Claire Harman has gained unprecedented access to Stevenson's collected correspondence which was previously unavailable to biographers. Widespread press coverage anticipated. Claire Harman's biography of Fanny Burney (HarperCollins) was widely acclaimed for its meticulous research, lightly worn scholarship and fluent and attractive style. It was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize. PRAISE FOR FANNY BURNEY: 'This scholarly, judicious and entertaining book is all that a biography should be' The Times 'Marvellous and beautifully written' Independent on Sunday 'A great achievement' Observer 'A superb, highly intelligent, readable study... This is how biography should be written' Irish Times
Claire Harman's first book, a biography of the novelist Sylvia Townsend Warner, was published by Chatto & Windus in 1989 and won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for 'a book of value from a writer of growing stature'. Her second, a life of Fanny Burney (2000), published by HarperCollins, was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize. She has edited Warner's Collected Poems (1982) and Diaries (1994) as well as works by Robert Louis Stevenson. Harman worked for the literary periodical PN Review in the 1980s and has taught at the universities of Manchester and Oxford. She has written for all the major British literary papers and currently teaches a course in creative writing at Columbia University's School of the Arts.
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