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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.
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...
Clark's book is an elegy for the Belon oyster of Brittany, facing extinction along with traditional lifeway of the rural, impoverished Bretons who once nurtured the prized delicacy. Part travelogue and part treatise on the oyster, Clark's book in no way resembles similar works being penned today.
Clark—an enterprising Vassar graduate, radical supporter of labor and leftist politics and renowned author—was constantly seeking out adventure whether travelling through Europe, staying with Trotskyites in Mexico or meticulously examining remote cultures.
CLARK, Eleanor. Born 6 July 1913, Los Angeles, California; died February 1996. Daughter of Frederick H. and Eleanor Phelps Clark; married Robert Penn Warren, 1952. Although born in California, Eleanor Clark grew up in Roxbury, Connecticut, and describes herself as an "unregenerate Yankee."
