Susanna Clarke Quotes


I had always been fascinated by comics, but it had taken me several weeks to make up my mind to buy 'Watchmen'; for someone on a publisher's assistant's salary, it was some quite unheard-of sum of money.


Citations

Clarke, Susanna. "Alan Moore." The Sunday Times, Times Newspapers, 2007.

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Susanna Clarke
Susanna Clarke
  • Born: November 1, 1959
  • Nationality: British
  • Profession: Novelist

Susanna Mary Clarke is an English author best 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.