[1][2][3][4] Eleanor Clark was born on July 6, 1913, in Los Angeles, California, but grew up in Roxbury, Connecticut.

[4] During World War II, Clark worked in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in Washington, DC.

[4] In 1952, Clark married Robert Penn Warren and lived in Fairfield, Connecticut, with him and their two children, Rosanna and Gabriel.

[1][5] When Rome and the Villa was reissued, Anatole Broyard called it "perhaps the finest book ever to be written about a city.

"[1] Clark wrote about her experiences with the CPUSA and Trotskyites in at least two fictionalized accounts, Bitter Box (1946) and Gloria Mundi (1979).