Eleanor Clark

Eleanor Clark (July 6, 1913 – February 16, 1996) was an American writer and "master stylist," best known for her non-fiction accounts.

Background

Eleanor Clark was born on July 6, 1913, in Los Angeles, California, but grew up in Roxbury, Connecticut. In 1952, Clark married Robert Penn Warren and lived in Fairfield, Connecticut, with him and their two children, Rosanna and Gabriel. Clark received the U.S. National Book Award in the short-lived category Arts and Letters.

When Rome and the Villa was reissued, Anatole Broyard called it "perhaps the finest book ever to be written about a city." Baldur's Gate (1970) Song of Roland (1960) Dr. Heart: A Novella and Other Stories (1974) Gloria Mundi: A Novel (1979)

Nonfiction: Rome and a Villa (1952) Oysters of Locmariaquer (1964) Eyes, Etc.: A Memoir (1977) Tamrart: 13 Days in the Sahara (1984) Camping Out (1986)

Translations: Dark Wedding (1943), translation of Epitalamio del Prieto Trinidad by Ramón José Sender