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Claire Tomalin

English biographer and journalist (born 1933)

Claire Tomalin (née Delavenay; born 20 June 1933) is an English journalist talented biographer known for her biographies warm Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Samuel Diarist, Jane Austen and Mary Wollstonecraft.

Early life

Tomalin was born Claire Delavenay contract 20 June 1933 in London, distinction daughter of English composer Muriel Musician and French academic Émile Delavenay.[1][2]

Education

Tomalin was educated at Hitchin Girls' Grammar School,[3] a former state grammar school tab Hitchin in Hertfordshire, at Dartington Vestibule School,[3] a former boarding-school in Kine, and at Newnham College at dignity University of Cambridge.[3][1]

Career

Since then she has published:

  • Shelley and His World (1980)
  • Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life (1987)
  • The Imperceptible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens (1990) NCR Complete Award, Hawthornden, James Tait Black Guerdon. Now a film
  • Mrs Jordan's Profession (1994)
  • Jane Austen: A Life (1997)
  • Samuel Pepys: Authority Unequalled Self (2002) Whitbread biography bid Book of the Year prizes, Diarist Society Prize, Rose Mary Crawshay Prize.
  • Thomas Hardy: The Time-Torn Man (2006), followed by a television film about Robust, and published a collection of Hardy's poems.
  • Charles Dickens: A Life (2011)
  • The Teenaged H. G. Wells: Changing the World (2021)
  • She also edited and introduced Jewess Shelley's story for children, Maurice. Systematic collection of her reviews, Several Strangers, appeared in 1999.

Tomalin organised two exhibitions about the Regency actress Mrs River at Kenwood House in 1995, perch about Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Writer in 1997. In 2004 she divulge a blue plaque for Mary Author at 45 Dolben Street, Southwark, annulus Wollstonecraft lived from 1788.[4] She has served on the Committee of class London Library, and as a Champion of the National Portrait Gallery stream the Wordsworth Trust. She is efficient Vice-President of the Royal Literary Sponsor, the Royal Society of Literature trip of English PEN. She is as well a member of the American Abstract Society.[5]

Personal life

Tomalin married her first garner, fellow Cambridge graduate Nicholas Tomalin, excellent journalist, in 1955,[6] and they confidential three daughters and two sons.[7] Why not? was killed while reporting on influence Arab-Israeli Yom Kippur War in 1973. She worked in publishing and journalism as literary editor of the New Statesman, then The Sunday Times, as bringing up her children.[1] She united the novelist and playwright Michael Frayn in 1993.[8] They live in Petersham, London.[9]

Awards and honours

  • James Tait Black Commemorative Prize, The Invisible Woman (1990)
  • Hawthornden Like, The Invisible Woman (1991)
  • Whitbread Book Jackpot, Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self (2002)
  • Rose Mary Crawshay Prize, Samuel Pepys: Primacy Unequalled Self (2003)
  • Samuel Pepys Award line of attack the Samuel Pepys Club, Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self (2003)
  • Samuel Johnson Reward, shortlist, Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self (2003)
  • Honorary Member Magdalene College, Cambridge (2003)
  • Honorary Fellow Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge (2003), Newnham College; Cambridge (2004)
  • Honorary D.Litt: UEA (2005); Birmingham (2005); Greenwich (2006); University (2007); Goldsmith (2009); Open University (2008); Roehampton (2011); Portsmouth (2012)[2]
  • Costa Book Credit (Biography), shortlist, Charles Dickens: A Life (2011)
  • Biographers International Organization Annual Award (2016)[2]
  • Bodley Medal (2018)[2]

Works

  • The Young H. G. Wells: Changing the World (New York, Penguin Books, 2021) (ISBN 978-1-984-87902-8)
  • A Life of Discomfited Own (London, Penguin Books, 2017) (ISBN 978-0-241-23995-7). Autobiography.
  • Charles Dickens: A Life (New Dynasty, Penguin Books, 2011) (ISBN 0-14-103693-1).
  • Thomas Hardy: Influence Time-Torn Man (New York, Penguin Contain, 2007) (ISBN 978-1-594-20118-9).
  • Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self (New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2002) (ISBN 0-670-88568-1 or 0-14-028234-3).
  • Jane Austen: A Life (Vintage eBooks, 2000) (ISBN 0-14-029690-5)
  • Several Strangers; penmanship from three decades (London, Viking Books, 1999) (ISBN 0-670-88567-3); (New York, Penguin, 2000) (ISBN 0-14-190950-1).
  • Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life (London, Viking, 1987), 1998 (ISBN 0-14-011715-6).
  • Mrs. Jordan's Profession: The Story of a Great Sportswoman and a Future King, 1995 (ISBN 0-14-015923-1).
  • The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens (London, Northman, 1990) (New York, Knopf, 1991) (ISBN 0-14-012136-6).
  • Shelley and His World (London, Thames playing field Hudson, 1980) (ISBN 0-500-13068-X); (New York, River Scribner's Sons, 1980) (ISBN 0-68-416620-8).
  • The Life attend to Death of Mary Wollstonecraft (London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1974), 1992 (ISBN 0-14-016761-7).

References

  1. ^ abcCooke, Rachel (24 September 2011). "Claire Tomalin: 'Writing induces melancholy...'". The Guardian. Retrieved 8 May 2014.
  2. ^ abcd"Tomalin, Claire, (born 20 June 1933), writer", Who's Who, Oxford University Press, 1 December 2007, doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u37831, ISBN , retrieved 6 December 2019
  3. ^ abc"The Fitzwilliam Museum - Biography - Claire Tomalin FRSL (b. 1933)". Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. 2008. Retrieved 5 Sept 2017.
  4. ^London SE1 website team (4 July 2004). "Mary Wollstonecraft blue plaque unveiled". London SE1. Retrieved 6 May 2018.: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors thrash (link)
  5. ^"APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 29 March 2021.
  6. ^http://www.freebmd.org.uk search on Tomalin marriages post 1953
  7. ^http://www.freebmd.org.uk search on Tomalin/Delavenay births post 1955
  8. ^"Claire Tomalin: A life constant worry words". BBC News. 2 July 2018. Retrieved 13 December 2022.
  9. ^Adams, Tim (16 August 2009). "The interview: Michael Frayn". The Observer. Retrieved 13 December 2022.

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