CLARK, Nancy 1952-

PERSONAL:

Born 1952, in Boston, MA. Education: Graduated from Trinity College.

ADDRESSES:

Home—West Wilton, NH. Agent—c/o Author Mail, Pantheon Books, 1745 Broadway, New York, NY 10019.

CAREER:

Novelist.

WRITINGS:

The Hills at Home, Pantheon Books (New York, NY), 2003.

WORK IN PROGRESS:

A Way from Home and July and August, two sequels to The Hills at Home.

SIDELIGHTS:

Nancy Clark's childhood home along Boston's North Shore was the inspiration for the perfect setting of her debut novel, The Hills at Home. Her work takes readers back to 1989 and follows the story of the Hill family as they invade the New England home of their Aunt Lily, who had been fond of living alone. A reviewer in Publishers Weekly commended Clark's attention to creative details, saying her details "are brush strokes in a colorful and lively portrait of an eccentric family." Roxana Robinson in New York Times called the book "welcome and refreshing" in the "Age of the Loner" where families are smaller and lineage identification and traits are things of the past.

Clark's novel has received praise from many reviewers, including a critic for Christian Science Monitor who called it "a series of relentlessly witty observations," and Library Journal's Beth E. Andersen who concluded that the book is "a masterpiece of small moments" and "deserves to be savored, sentence by sentence."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Christian Science Monitor, February 13, 2003, "Family and Fish After Three Days.… They Came for the Weekend but Never Left," p 19.

Kirkus Reviews, December 15, 2002, review of The Hills at Home, pp. 1785-1786.

Library Journal, February 15, 2003, Beth E. Andersen, review of The Hills at Home, p. 167.

New York Times, March 9, 2003, Roxana Robinson, "Under One Roof," p. 9; March 16, 2003, "And Bear In Mind," p. 26.

Publishers Weekly, January 20, 2003, review of The Hills at Home, p. 55.

Washington Post, March 2, 2003, Denise Kersten, "All in the Family," p. BW12.

ONLINE

randomhouse.com,http://www.randomhouse.com/ (June 6, 2003), "A Conversation with Nancy Clark," (interview), Pantheon, 2003.*