Claire Tomalin
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Claire Tomalin (born Claire Delavenay on 20 June 1933 in London) is an English biographer and journalist, the daughter of French academic Émile Delavenay and English composer Muriel Herbert. She was educated at Newnham College, Cambridge.
She was literary editor of the New Statesman and of the Sunday Times, and has written several noted biographies. Claire Tomalin is Vice-President of the Royal Society of Literature and of the English PEN.
Tomalin married, as her first husband, fellow Cambridge graduate Nicholas Tomalin, a prominent journalist, in Q3, 1955 [1] and they had three daughters and two sons ,[2] but he was killed in the Arab-Israeli Yom Kippur War in 1973
Claire Tomalin is now married to the novelist and playwright Michael Frayn.
Awards and honours [edit]
- 1990 James Tait Black Memorial Prize, The Invisible Woman
- 1991 Hawthornden Prize, The Invisible Woman
- 2002 Whitbread Book Award, Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self
- 2003 Rose Mary Crawshay Prize, Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self
- 2003 Latham Prize of the Samuel Pepys Club, Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self
- 2003 Samuel Johnson Prize, shortlist, Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self
- 2011 Costa Book Awards (Biography), shortlist, Charles Dickens: A Life
- 2012 Honorary DLitt degree, University of Portsmouth
Works [edit]
- Charles Dickens: A Life, 2011, Penguin Books, ISBN 0141036931
- Thomas Hardy: The Time-Torn Man, 2007, ISBN 978-1-59420-118-9
- Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self, (New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2002), ISBN 0-670-88568-1 or ISBN 0-14-028234-3
- Jane Austen: A Life, 2000, ISBN 0-14-029690-5
- Several Strangers; writing from three decades, 1999, Viking Books Hardcover, London, ISBN 0670885673; 2000, Penguin, ISBN 0141909501
- Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life, (London, Viking, 1987), 1998, ISBN 0-14-011715-6
- Mrs. Jordan's Profession: The Story of a Great Actress and a Future King, 1995, ISBN 0-14-015923-1
- Shelley and His World, 1992, ISBN 978-0-14-017152-5
- The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens, (New York, Knopf, 1991), ISBN 0-14-012136-6
- The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft (London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1974), 1992, ISBN 0-14-016761-7
References [edit]
- ^ http://www.freebmd.org.uk search on Tomalin marriages post 1953
- ^ http://www.freebmd.org.uk search on Tomalin/Delavenay births post 1955
Further reading [edit]
- 'Aida Edemariam meets Claire Tomalin' The Guardian 18 November 2006
- 'Claire Tomalin: a Life in Words' BBC World News, Entertainment, 29 Jan 2003
- Claire Tomalin at www.contemporarywriters
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| Preceded by Wendy Doniger Kate Flint |
Rose Mary Crawshay Prize 2003 and Jane Stabler |
Succeeded by Maud Ellmann Anne Stott |
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- Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature
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- James Tait Black Memorial Prize recipients
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- NCR Book Award winners
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