Everything about Clare Boylan totally explained
Clare Boylan (
21 April 1948 –
16 May 2006) was an
Irish author, journalist and critic for newspapers, magazines and many international broadcast media.
She was born in
Dublin, and began her career as a journalist at the (now defunct)
Irish Press. In
1974 she won the Journalist of the Year award when working in the city for the
Evening Press. Later in her career she edited the glossy magazine
Image, before largely giving up journalism to focus on a career as an author.
Her novels are
Holy Pictures (
1983),
Last Resorts (1984),
Black Baby (1988),
Home Rule (1992),
Beloved Stranger (1999),
Room for a Single Lady (1997) (which won the Spirit of Light Award and was optioned for a film), and
Emma Brown (2003). The latter work is a continuation of an 18-page fragment written by
Charlotte Brontë before her death.
Her short stories are collected in
A Nail on the Head (1983),
Concerning Virgins (1990) and
That Bad Woman (1995). The film
Making Waves, based on her short story
Some Ladies on a Tour, was nominated for an
Oscar in 1988.
Her non-fiction includes
The Agony and the Ego (1994), and
The Literary Companion to Cats (1994). She wrote introductions to the novels of
Kate O'Brien and
Molly Keane and adapted Molly Keane's novel
Good Behaviour as the classic serial for
BBC Radio 4 (2004). Her work has been translated as far afield as
Russia and
Hong Kong.
In later life, she lived in
County Wicklow with her husband Alan Wilkes. She died after a lengthy struggle with
ovarian cancer, aged 58.
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