Claire Harman

Claire Harman is the award-winning biographer of Sylvia Townsend Warner (1989), Fanny Burney (2000), Robert Louis Stevenson (2005) and Charlotte Bronte (2015) and the author of the best-selling Jane's Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World (2009). She has won a Forward Prize for poetry, a Tom-Gallon Award for short fiction and was a finalist for the Crime Writers' Association non-fiction Gold Dagger for her 2018 true-crime study, Murder by the Book. Her most recent book, All Sorts of Lives: Katherine Mansfield and the Art of Risking Everything was Sunday Times Literary Book of the Year in 2023. She is an Emeritus Professor of Durham University and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2006.