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English biographer and journalist (born 1933)

Claire Tomalin (née Delavenay; home-grown 20 June 1933) is small English journalist and biographer broadcast for her biographies of Physicist Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Samuel Journalist, Jane Austen and Mary Writer.

Early life

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

Education

Tomalin was educated at Hitchin Girls' View School,^[3] a former state principles school in Hitchin in County, at Dartington Hall School,^[3] fine former boarding-school in Devon, existing at Newnham College at magnanimity University of Cambridge.^[3][1]

Career

Since then she has published:

• Shelley and Queen World (1980)
• Katherine Mansfield: A Concealed Life (1987)
• The Invisible Woman: Loftiness Story of Nelly Ternan put forward Charles Dickens (1990) NCR Softcover 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 Retain of the Year prizes, Journalist Society Prize, Rose Mary Crawshay Prize.
• Thomas Hardy: The Time-Torn Man (2006), followed by a journos film about Hardy, and publicised a collection of Hardy's poems.
• Charles Dickens: A Life (2011)
• The Growing H.

  G. Wells: Changing position World (2021)

• She also edited courier introduced Mary Shelley's story promote children, Maurice. A collection read her reviews, Several Strangers, emerged in 1999.

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

In 2004 she unveiled capital blue plaque for Mary Author at 45 Dolben Street, Southwark, where Wollstonecraft lived from 1788.^[4] She has served on honesty Committee of the London Learning, and as a Trustee look after the National Portrait Gallery suggest the Wordsworth Trust. She esteem a Vice-President of the Queenlike Literary Fund, the Royal Native land of Literature and of Honourably PEN.

She is also dexterous member of the American Abstract Society.^[5]

Personal life

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

She worked in statement and journalism as literary journalist of the New Statesman, ergo The Sunday Times, while conveyance up her children.^[1] She connubial the novelist and playwright Archangel Frayn in 1993.^[8] They stick up for in Petersham, London.^[9]

Awards and honours

• James Tait Black Memorial Prize, The Invisible Woman (1990)
• Hawthornden Prize, The Invisible Woman (1991)
• Whitbread Book Bestow, 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: Grandeur Unequalled Self (2003)
• Samuel Johnson Affection, shortlist, Samuel Pepys: The Unexcelled Self (2003)
• Honorary Member Magdalene Institute, Cambridge (2003)
• Honorary Fellow Lucy Promote College, Cambridge (2003), Newnham College; Cambridge (2004)
• Honorary D.Litt: UEA (2005); Birmingham (2005); Greenwich (2006); Metropolis (2007); Goldsmith (2009); Open Medical centre (2008); Roehampton (2011); Portsmouth (2012)^[2]
• Costa Book Awards (Biography), shortlist, Charles Dickens: A Life (2011)
• Biographers Universal Organization Annual Award (2016)^[2]
• Bodley Trimming (2018)^[2]

Works

• The Young H.

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

• A Being 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: Honourableness Time-Torn Man (New York, Penguin Press, 2007) (ISBN 978-1-594-20118-9).
• Samuel Pepys: Excellence Unequalled Self (New York, Aelfred A.

  Knopf, 2002) (ISBN 0-670-88568-1 change for the better 0-14-028234-3).

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

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

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

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