Clare Clark

Clare Clark is the award-winning author of several highly acclaimed historical novels, including The Great Stink; The Nature of Monsters; Savage Lands, which was longlisted for the Orange Prize; and Beautiful Lies. A graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge, she is a regular contributor to the Guardian's literary pages, reviewing both fiction and nonfiction, and writes for several other broadsheet newspapers, both in the U.K. and the U.S. Clare works as a tutor in the Creative Writing MA program at City University. She lives in London with her husband and two children.