American novelist
Eleanor Clark (1913 – 1996) was an American writer and "master stylist," best known for her non-fiction accounts.
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Background
Eleanor Clark was born on July 6, 1913, in
Los Angeles ,
California , but grew up in
Roxbury, Connecticut .
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[4] She attended
Vassar College in the 1930s, where she met
Mary McCarthy .
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Career
Clark was involved with the literary magazine Con Spirito there, along with
Elizabeth Bishop ,
Mary McCarthy , and her sister Eunice Clark. She also associated with
Herbert Solow and helped translate documents for the 1937 "trial" of
Leon Trotsky .
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During World War II, Clark worked in the
Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in Washington, DC.
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Clark wrote reviews, essays, children's books, and novels.
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Personal life and death
In the late 1930s, Clark married
Jan Frankel , a secretary of Trotsky; they divorced by the mid-1940s.
[4] In 1952, Clark married
Robert Penn Warren and lived in
Fairfield, Connecticut , with him and their two children,
Rosanna and Gabriel.
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On February 16, 1996, Clark died age 82 in
Boston, Massachusetts .
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Awards
1953: National Book Award finalist nonfiction for Rome and a Villa
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1964:
National Book Award in Arts and Letters for The Oysters of Locmariaquer
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Works
For her book The Oysters of Locmariaquer (1964), Clark received the U.S.
National Book Award in the short-lived category
Arts and Letters .
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When Rome and the Villa was reissued,
Anatole Broyard called it "perhaps the finest book ever to be written about a city."
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Clark wrote about her experiences with the
CPUSA and
Trotskyites in at least two fictionalized accounts, Bitter Box (1946) and Gloria Mundi (1979).
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Novels:
Bitter Box (1946)
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Baldur's Gate (1970)
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Song of Roland (1960)
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Dr. Heart: A Novella and Other Stories (1974)
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Gloria Mundi: A Novel (1979)
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Nonfiction:
Rome and a Villa (1952)
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Oysters of Locmariaquer (1964)
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Eyes, Etc.: A Memoir (1977)
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Tamrart: 13 Days in the Sahara (1984)
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Camping Out (1986)
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Translations:
See also
References
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Thomas, Robert McG. Jr. (19 February 1996).
"Eleanor Clark is Dead at 82 - A Ruminative Travel Essayist" . The New York Times . Retrieved May 30, 2010 .
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Kunitz, Stanley (1955).
Twentieth Century Authors: A Biographical Dictionary of Modern Literature. Supplement, Volume 1 . H. W. Wilson. p. 203. Retrieved 24 July 2019 .
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"Eleanor Clark" . National Book Foundation. Retrieved 24 July 2019 .
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Wald, Alan M. (1987).
The New York Intellectuals: The Rise and Decline of the Anti-Stalinist Left from the 1930s to the 1980s . UNC Press Books. pp. 246–248.
ISBN
9780807841693 . Retrieved 20 January 2019 .
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"Oysters of Locmariaquer" . National Book Foundation. Retrieved 10 March 2012 .
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Clark, Eleanor (1946).
Bitter Box . Doubleday. Retrieved 24 July 2019 .
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"Bitter Box" . Kirkus . 4 April 1946. Retrieved 24 July 2019 .
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Clark, Eleanor (1970).
Baldur's Gate . Pantheon. Retrieved 24 July 2019 .
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Clark, Eleanor (1960).
Song of Roland . Random House. Retrieved 24 July 2019 .
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Clark, Eleanor (1974).
Dr. Heart: A Novella and Other Stories . Pantheon.
ISBN
9780394494111 . Retrieved 24 July 2019 .
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Clark, Eleanor (1979).
Gloria Mundi: A Novel . Pantheon.
ISBN
9780394505367 . Retrieved 24 July 2019 .
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Clark, Eleanor (1952).
Rome and a Villa . Doubleday. Retrieved 24 July 2019 .
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Clark, Eleanor (1964).
Oysters of Locmariaquer . Pantheon. Retrieved 24 July 2019 .
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Clark, Eleanor (1977).
Eyes, Etc.: A Memoir . Pantheon. Retrieved 24 July 2019 .
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Clark, Eleanor (1984).
Tamrart: 13 Days in the Sahara . S. Wright.
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9780913773154 . Retrieved 24 July 2019 .
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Clark, Eleanor (1986).
Camping Out . Putnam.
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9780399131226 . Retrieved 24 July 2019 .
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Sender, Ramón José (1943).
Dark Wedding . Translated by Eleanor Clark. Doubleday, Doran. Retrieved 24 July 2019 .
External links
Eleanor Clark Papers . Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
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