3 Quotes & Sayings By Gillian Clarke

Gillian Clarke is an award-winning author of over thirty novels, including the popular Besieged series. She is also an award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and novelist. Her short stories have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies. She has won several awards for her short fiction, including the prestigious Bram Stoker Award. Clarke's other accomplishments include having her first play produced during her senior year at high school Read more

She wrote two plays while attending the University of Texas at Austin. Her first play was produced by the UT Drama Department, which led to her being invited to join the prestigious Theatre West Repertory Company. The script she wrote for that production won a student Emmy Award in 1967 for best structure, best editing, best sound recording, and best overall sound. The play was then selected to be presented at Theatre West's national conference in New York City by the President of Theatre West himself.

theatrewestrep.org After college she worked as a technical writer at IBM before becoming a full-time writer of "true crime" novels under the pseudonym Gillian Clarke based on her initials and married name after she eloped with her husband at age twenty-four. Clarke has won several awards including multiple Bram Stoker Awards for Best Novel, Best Short Story Award from the Association of Authors' Representatives (AAR), and multiple Locus Poll nominees for Best Novel. Clarke's first novel "Seduction" was published in 1997; within two years it had been awarded two Bram Stokers and was on its way to worldwide distribution through Ace Books when it was acquired by Ballantine Books, where it found its home under Clarke's real name in 2003. Clarke is now working on a novel set in North Carolina She lives in North Carolina with her husband and daughter Clarke's work has been translated into many languages Mentioned: http://www.amazon.com/Gillian-Clarke/e/B00B9Z9W2E/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1

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There's a side to all writers that loves nothing better than a book, a big chair, a window. Gillian Clarke
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Poetry is a hook for memory Gillian Clarke