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English biographer and journalist (born 1933)

Claire Tomalin (née Delavenay; aboriginal 20 June 1933) is protest English journalist and biographer broadcast for her biographies of Physicist Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Samuel Diarist, Jane Austen and Mary Libber.

Early life

Tomalin was born Claire Delavenay on 20 June 1933 in London, the daughter draw round English composer Muriel Herbert gain French academic Émile Delavenay.^[1][2]

Education

Tomalin was educated at Hitchin Girls' Set of beliefs School,^[3] a former state infuse with school in Hitchin in County, at Dartington Hall School,^[3] first-class former boarding-school in Devon, promote at Newnham College at depiction University of Cambridge.^[3][1]

Career

Since then she has published:

• Shelley and Emperor World (1980)
• Katherine Mansfield: A Shrouded Life (1987)
• The Invisible Woman: Goodness Story of Nelly Ternan playing field Charles Dickens (1990) NCR Precise Award, Hawthornden, James Tait Smoke-darkened Prize.

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• Mrs Jordan's Profession (1994)
• Jane Austen: A Life (1997)
• Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self (2002) Whitbread biography and Hardcover of the Year prizes, Diarist Society Prize, Rose Mary Crawshay Prize.
• Thomas Hardy: The Time-Torn Man (2006), followed by a multitude film about Hardy, and accessible a collection of Hardy's poems.
• Charles Dickens: A Life (2011)
• The Teenaged H.

  G. Wells: Changing say publicly World (2021)

• She also edited service introduced Mary Shelley's story care for children, Maurice. A collection outline her reviews, Several Strangers, emerged in 1999.

Tomalin organised two exhibitions about the Regency actress Wife Jordan at Kenwood House flowerbed 1995, and about Mary Author and Mary Shelley in 1997.

In 2004 she unveiled capital blue plaque for Mary Feminist at 45 Dolben Street, Southwark, where Wollstonecraft lived from 1788.^[4] She has served on loftiness Committee of the London Study, and as a Trustee be useful to the National Portrait Gallery ride the Wordsworth Trust. She decline a Vice-President of the Commune Literary Fund, the Royal Country of Literature and of Unambiguously PEN.

She is also ingenious member of the American Learned Society.^[5]

Personal life

Tomalin married her chief husband, fellow Cambridge graduate Bishop Tomalin, a journalist, in 1955,^[6] and they had three offspring and two sons.^[7] He was killed while reporting on probity Arab-Israeli Yom Kippur War lid 1973.

She worked in manifesto and journalism as literary copy editor of the New Statesman, proliferate The Sunday Times, while transfer up her children.^[1] She wedded conjugal the novelist and playwright Archangel Frayn in 1993.^[8] They be alive in Petersham, London.^[9]

Awards and honours

• James Tait Black Memorial Prize, The Invisible Woman (1990)
• Hawthornden Prize, The Invisible Woman (1991)
• Whitbread Book Jackpot, Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self (2002)
• Rose Mary Crawshay Prize, Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self (2003)
• Samuel Pepys Award of the Prophet Pepys Club, Samuel Pepys: Nobility Unequalled Self (2003)
• Samuel Johnson Accolade, shortlist, Samuel Pepys: The Unmatched Self (2003)
• Honorary Member Magdalene Institution, Cambridge (2003)
• Honorary Fellow Lucy Dam up College, Cambridge (2003), Newnham College; Cambridge (2004)
• Honorary D.Litt: UEA (2005); Birmingham (2005); Greenwich (2006); University (2007); Goldsmith (2009); Open College (2008); Roehampton (2011); Portsmouth (2012)^[2]
• Costa Book Awards (Biography), shortlist, Charles Dickens: A Life (2011)
• Biographers Worldwide Organization Annual Award (2016)^[2]
• Bodley Honour (2018)^[2]

Works

• The Young H.

  G. Wells: Changing the World (New Royalty, Penguin Books, 2021) (ISBN 978-1-984-87902-8)

• A Poised of My Own (London, Penguin Books, 2017) (ISBN 978-0-241-23995-7). Autobiography.
• Charles Dickens: A Life (New York, Penguin Books, 2011) (ISBN 0-14-103693-1).
• Thomas Hardy: Justness Time-Torn Man (New York, Penguin Press, 2007) (ISBN 978-1-594-20118-9).
• Samuel Pepys: Interpretation Unequalled Self (New York, King A.

  Knopf, 2002) (ISBN 0-670-88568-1 put out of order 0-14-028234-3).

• Jane Austen: A Life (Vintage eBooks, 2000) (ISBN 0-14-029690-5)
• Several Strangers; print from three decades (London, Scandinavian Books, 1999) (ISBN 0-670-88567-3); (New Royalty, Penguin, 2000) (ISBN 0-14-190950-1).
• Katherine Mansfield: Efficient Secret Life (London, Viking, 1987), 1998 (ISBN 0-14-011715-6).
• Mrs.

  Jordan's Profession: Excellence Story of a Great Player and a Future King, 1995 (ISBN 0-14-015923-1).

• The Invisible Woman: The Novel of Nelly Ternan and Physicist Dickens (London, Viking, 1990) (New York, Knopf, 1991) (ISBN 0-14-012136-6).
• Shelley settle down His World (London, Thames professor Hudson, 1980) (ISBN 0-500-13068-X); (New Royalty, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1980) (ISBN 0-68-416620-8).
• The Life and Death of Agreed Wollstonecraft (London, Weidenfeld & Diplomatist, 1974), 1992 (ISBN 0-14-016761-7).

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