Eleanor Clark

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Eleanor Clark (July 6 1913–1996) attended Vassar College in the 1930s, and was involved with the literary magazine Con Spirito there, along with Elizabeth Bishop, Mary McCarthy and her sister Eunice Clark. She was married Robert Penn Warren in 1952 and lived in Fairfield, Connecticut with him and their two children, Rosanna and Gabriel. Her book, The Oysters of Locmariaquer, received the National Book Award for arts and letters in 1965. She was also the author of two other works of nonfiction, Rome and a Villa and Eyes, Etc., and the novels The Bitter Box, Baldur's Gate, and Camping Out.

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