Susannah Clapp is a British writer, who has been the theatre critic of The Observer since 1997 and is a frequent contributor to the BBC's Nightwaves.[1]
An editor and reader at the publisher Jonathan Cape early in her career, Clapp was a founder of the London Review of Books, where she was assistant editor.[2] She is the author of books about Bruce Chatwin and Angela Carter, and is the literary executor of the estates of both authors.[3]