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Katherine Clark's
The Harvard Bride begins with the lavish Mountain Brook wedding of Daniel Dobbs and Caroline Elmore, college sweethearts introduced in Clark's second novel,
All the Governor's Men. Picking up where the previous novel ended,
The Harvard Bride is a wry comedy of manners and portrait of a marriage.
About the author
Katherine Clark holds an A.B. degree in English from Harvard and a Ph.D. in English from Emory. She is the coauthor of the oral biographies
Motherwit: An Alabama Midwife's Story, with Onnie Lee Logan, and
Milking the Moon: A Southerner's Story of Life on This Planet, with Eugene Walter, a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle award.
The Harvard Bride, the third in her series of Mountain Brook novels featuring Norman Laney and his students, is preceded by
The Headmaster's Darlings and
All the Governor's Men and will be followed by
The Ex-suicide, forthcoming from the University of South Carolina Press's Story River Books, as is her oral biography of Pat Conroy. Clark lives on the Gulf Coast.
Summary
Katherine Clark’s The Harvard Bride begins with the lavish Mountain Brook wedding of Daniel Dobbs and Caroline Elmore, college sweethearts introduced in Clark’s second novel, All the Governor’s Men. Picking up where the previous novel ended, The Harvard Bride is a wry comedy of manners and portrait of a marriage.