Eleanor Clark (1) (1913–1996)
Auteur de Rome and a Villa
Pour les autres auteurs qui s'appellent Eleanor Clark, voyez la page de désambigüisation.
A propos de l'auteur
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Œuvres de Eleanor Clark
Oeuvres associées
The Smiles of Rome: A Literary Companion for Readers and Travelers (2005) — Contributeur — 57 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1913-07-06
- Date de décès
- 1996-02-16
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Fairfield, Connecticut, USA
Roxbury, Connecticut, USA - Études
- Vassar College
- Professions
- travel writer
memoirist
novelist
essayist
reviewer
children's book author (tout afficher 9)
playwright
short story writer
poet - Relations
- Warren, Robert Penn (husband)
Warren, Rosanna (daughter) - Organisations
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1968)
- Prix et distinctions
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award ( [1947])
National Book Award (poetry ∙ 1958) - Courte biographie
- The New York Times said in her obituary: Eleanor Clark, an author best known for the evocative range of her accounts of oystering in Brittany and of the streets of Rome. . . was a master stylist whose works won critical acclaim and inspired a devoted private following. Her writings included reviews, essays, children's books and novels.
In a review in The New York Times, Anatole Broyard called a 1975 reissue of her 1952 book "Rome and the Villa" "perhaps the finest book ever to be written about a city."
But the most telling tributes came from the generations of American and other tourists who followed her steps -- page by dog-eared page -- through the city, marveling at each architectural feature that triggered her soaring ruminations on everything from ancient history and early Roman poetry to modern social conditions.
Although she was sometimes described as a travel writer, "Rome and a Villa" is not a traditional travel book. Nor is "The Oysters of Locmariaquer," a somewhat similar book that used oystering in Brittany as a springboard to an excursion through history and culture, and won the 1964 National Book Award for arts and letters. Each reflected deep scholarship and a lively intuition.
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 10
- Aussi par
- 8
- Membres
- 412
- Popularité
- #59,116
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 7
- ISBN
- 43