Claire Tomalin

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June 20, 1933 in London, The United Kingdom

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Biographies & Memoirs, History

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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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Average rating: 3.96 · 2,754 ratings · 394 reviews · 23 distinct works

	Jane Austen 3.94 avg rating — 1,438 ratings — published 2000 — 13 editions	My rating:
	Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self 4.12 avg rating — 394 ratings — 11 editions	My rating:
	Charles Dickens: A Life 3.97 avg rating — 352 ratings — published 2011 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Thomas Hardy 3.91 avg rating — 257 ratings — published 2006 — 15 editions	My rating:
	The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens 4.04 avg rating — 102 ratings — published 2004 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Katherine Mansfield 3.66 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 1987 — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft 3.89 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 1974 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Mrs. Jordan's Profession: The Actress and the Prince 3.71 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 1995 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Shelley And His World 4.08 avg rating — 13 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Young Bysshe 3.60 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2005	My rating:

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