About Clare Dunsford
My roots run deep in the Mississippi mud of St. Louis, Missouri, where I was born and raised, even though I’ve lived in the Boston area for over thirty years. How did I end up here? When my family spent a year in Cambridge, Massachusetts while my father studied at Harvard Law School, I was only six, but I felt the glamour of the academic life around me and vowed that I would return one day. After attending St. Louis University for my B.A, I returned to Boston for graduate school, earning a Ph.D. in English at Boston University.
After teaching English at Harvard and Boston College as an adjunct instructor, I had the opportunity to try administration and am now an associate dean at Boston College. For several years I was a contributing writer at Boston College Magazine.
Family also inspires my next book. A novel set in St. Louis at the time of the 1904 World’s Fair and in the 1970s, it tells a love story based on the life of my great-great-aunt Minnie and a girl who could be her modern descendent. Blood runs deep and carries mysteries that science will never decode.
Read the cover story and excerpt about Clare Dunsford & her son J.P. in the Fall 2007 issue of Boston College Magazine.
Author photo: Lee Pellegrini