Author
Born 01 November 1959
Also known as Susanna Mary Clarke
Susanna Mary Clarke (born 1 November 1959) is an English author known for her debut novel Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (2004), a Hugo Award-winning alternative history. Clarke began Jonathan Strange in 1993 and worked on it during her spare time. For the next decade, she published short stories from the Strange universe, but it was not until 2003 that Bloomsbury bought her manuscript and began work on its publication. The novel became a best-seller.
Source: Susanna Clarke on Wikipedia.
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Really disliked. While the first section was very strong, it nosedived into mediocre from there. Characters, events, themes, and even the setting of the house itself seem complex at first, though quickly this is revealed to be a veneer. In the time I spent re…
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Congratulations to the following 10 works for being inducted into the r/TrueLit Hall of Fame, and thereby disqualifying themselves from consideration for this, and all future, r/TrueLit Favourite Books lists: Moby Dick - Herman Melville Ulysses - James Joyce…
The rare book that effortlessly minds the gap between your mainstream fantasy reader and your litfic snob (a title I wear guiltlessly), by obviously being written with neither in mind. Clarke happily chases her muse wherever it takes her. Her conceptions of m…
