The Oysters of Locmariaquer

Eleanor Clark (1913-1996) was an American author and master stylist best known for her nonfiction works The Oysters of Locmariaquer (1964), which won the National Book Award in Arts and Letters, and Rome and a Villa (1952), a National Book Award finalist hailed as perhaps the finest book ever written about a city. She also wrote novels such as The Bitter Box (1946) and Baldur's Gate (1970), memoirs, children's books, and translations, marrying poet Robert Penn Warren in 1952. New York Times obituary