Susanna Clarke

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born

November 01, 1959 in Nottingham, England, The United Kingdom

gender

female

website

http://www.jonathanstrange.com/

genre

Science Fiction & Fantasy, Alternate History

influences

Jane Austen, Neil Gaiman

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Susanna Clarke was born in Nottingham in 1959. A nomadic childhood was spent in towns in Northern England and Scotland. She was educated at St Hilda's College, Oxford, and has worked in various areas of non-fiction publishing, including Gordon Fraser and Quarto. In 1990, she left London and went to Turin to teach English to stressed-out executives of the Fiat motor company. The following year she taught English in Bilbao.

She returned to England in 1992 and spent the rest of that year in County Durham, in a house that looked out over the North Sea. There she began working on her first novel, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell.

From 1993 to 2003, Susanna Clarke was an editor at Simon and Schuster's Cambridge office, where she worked on their c...more

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Books by Susanna Clarke

Average rating: 3.76 · 59,508 ratings · 6,061 reviews · 19 distinct works

	Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell 3.73 avg rating — 49,893 ratings — published 2004 — 69 editions	My rating:
	The Ladies of Grace Adieu: And Other Stories by Susanna Clarke, Charles Vess (Illustrator) 3.79 avg rating — 4,940 ratings — published 2006 — 27 editions	My rating:
	Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke, Femmy Syahrani (Goodreads Author) (Translator), Diniarty Pandia (Editor) 3.84 avg rating — 536 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke, Femmy Syahrani (Goodreads Author) (Translator), Diniarty Pandia (Editor) 3.70 avg rating — 162 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:
	Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke, Femmy Syahrani (Goodreads Author) (Translator), Diniarty Pandia (Editor) 3.89 avg rating — 62 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	Drawing Down the Moon: The Art of Charles Vess 4.61 avg rating — 102 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Sandman: Book of Dreams by Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Edward E. Kramer (Editor), Frank D. McConnell (Preface) 4.11 avg rating — 2,567 ratings — published 1996 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Black Heart, Ivory Bones by Ellen Datlow (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Terri Windling (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Brian M. Stableford (Contributor) 4.05 avg rating — 573 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Black Swan, White Raven by Ellen Datlow (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Terri Windling (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Anne Bishop (Contributor) 3.93 avg rating — 385 ratings — published 1997 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Happily Ever After by John Klima (Editor), Holly Black (Goodreads Author), Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author) 3.78 avg rating — 196 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	My rating:

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“Can a magician kill a man by magic?” Lord Wellington asked Strange. Strange frowned. He seemed to dislike the question. “I suppose a magician might,” he admitted, “but a gentleman never would.”
― Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

tags: gentleman , honor , killing , magic

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“She wore a gown the color of storms, shadows, and rain and a necklace of broken promises and regrets.”
― Susanna Clarke

84 people liked it

“To be more precise it was the color of heartache.”
― Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

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This is the run-off for the December Fantasy Theme: Historical Fantasy

Under Heaven by Guy Gavriel Kay

15 votes 51.7%

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke

14 votes 48.3%

29 total votes

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