Claire Harman

Claire Harman's first book, a biography of the writer Sylvia Townsend Warner, won the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys prize in 1990, and her second, Fanny Burney: A Biography was shortlisted for the Whitbread Award. Since 2003 she has been teacing a course in biography at Columbia University and lives in New York City and Oxford.