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Claire Tomalin

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born
in London, The United Kingdom
June 20, 1933

gender
female

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genre
Biographies & Memoirs, History, Nonfiction


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Born Claire Delavenay in London, she was educated at Newnham College, Cambridge.

She became literary editor of the 'New Statesman' and also the 'Sunday Times'. She has written several noted biographies and her work has been recognised with the award of the 1990 James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the 1991 Hawthornden Prize for 'The Invisible Woman The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens'.

In addition, her biography of Samuel Pepys won the Whitbread Book Award in 2002, the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize in 2003, the Latham Prize of the Samuel Pepys Club in 2003, and was also shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize in 2003.

She married her first husband, Nicholas Tomalin, who was a prominent journalist but who was killed in the Arab-Israeli Yo...more


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Jane Austen: A Life
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Charles Dickens: A Life
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Samuel Pepys: The Unequalle...
4.13 of 5 stars 4.13 avg rating — 694 ratings — published 2002 — 11 editions
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Thomas Hardy
3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 412 ratings — published 2006 — 18 editions
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The Invisible Woman: The St...
3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 173 ratings — published 1990 — 15 editions
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The Life and Death of Mary ...
3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 82 ratings — published 1974 — 10 editions
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Katherine Mansfield: A Secr...
3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 82 ratings — published 1987 — 7 editions
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Mrs. Jordan's Profession: T...
3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 70 ratings — published 1995 — 7 editions
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Shelley and His World
4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1980 — 4 editions
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Young Bysshe
3.35 of 5 stars 3.35 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2005
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