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Eleanor Clark (1913 – 1996) was an American writer and "master stylist," best known for her non-fiction accounts.
Eleanor Clark (July 6, 1913–February 16, 1996) was born in Los Angeles and attended Vassar College in the 1930s. She was the author of the National Book Award winner The Oysters of Locmariaquer, Rome and a Villa, Eyes, Etc., and the novels The Bitter Box, Baldur’s Gate, and Camping Out.
19 de nov. de 2013 · Clark highlights Roman art and architecture, including Hadrian's Villa—an enormous, unfinished palace—as a prism to view the city and its history, and offers a lovely portrait...
Eleanor Clark (July 6, 1913–February 16, 1996) was born in Los Angeles and attended Vassar College in the 1930s. She was the author of the National Book Award winner The Oysters of Locmariaquer, Rome and a Villa, Eyes, Etc., and the novels The Bitter Box, Baldur's Gate, and Camping Out.
24 de mar. de 2023 · The 2023 Colin Franklin Prize for Book Collecting has been awarded to Eleanor Clark for her collection of first edition books by female authors 1900-2000, documenting women’s literary lives in the twentieth-century.
Eleanor Clark. (1913—1996) Quick Reference. (1913–1996), author of Rome and a Villa (1952) and The Oysters of Locmariaquer (1964), local-color studies summoning up the sense of the Italian capital and of Brittany respectively, and Tamrart (1984), about a camelback excursion in the Sahara.
Clark pays special attention to Roman art and architecture. In the book's midsection she looks at Hadrian's Villa - an enormous, unfinished palace - as a meta-phor for the city decaying, imperial, shabby, but capable of inducing an overwhelming dreaminess in its visitors.
