[1] Harman is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and has taught English at the Universities of Oxford and Manchester.
[3] Harman won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in 1989 for her biography of poet Sylvia Townsend Warner.
[4] This was followed with eponymous biographies of Fanny Burney[5] in 2000 and Robert Louis Stevenson in 2005.
[9] In 2016, Harman won the ALCS Tom-Gallon Trust Award for a short story.
Harman returned to literary biography with the 'innovative' [12]All Sorts of Lives: Katherine Mansfield and the Art of Risking Everything[13] in 2023.