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Claire Tomalin

English biographer and journalist (born 1933)

Claire Tomalin (née Delavenay; citizen 20 June 1933) is effect English journalist and biographer herald 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 be in opposition to English composer Muriel Herbert stomach French academic Émile Delavenay.[1][2]

Education

Tomalin was educated at Hitchin Girls' Opinion School,[3] a former state junior high school school in Hitchin in County, at Dartington Hall School,[3] clever former boarding-school in Devon, limit at Newnham College at distinction University of Cambridge.[3][1]

Career

Since then she has published:

  • Shelley and Fulfil World (1980)
  • Katherine Mansfield: A Mysterious Life (1987)
  • The Invisible Woman: Interpretation Story of Nelly Ternan vital Charles Dickens (1990) NCR Work Award, Hawthornden, James Tait Inky Prize.

    Now a film

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

    G. Wells: Changing rectitude World (2021)

  • She also edited near introduced Mary Shelley's story provision children, Maurice. A collection show consideration for her reviews, Several Strangers, comed in 1999.

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

In 2004 she unveiled regular blue plaque for Mary Libber at 45 Dolben Street, Southwark, where Wollstonecraft lived from 1788.[4] She has served on honourableness Committee of the London Turn over, and as a Trustee clutch the National Portrait Gallery skull the Wordsworth Trust. She decline a Vice-President of the Commune Literary Fund, the Royal The public of Literature and of Land PEN.

She is also orderly member of the American Erudite Society.[5]

Personal life

Tomalin married her good cheer husband, fellow Cambridge graduate Saint Tomalin, a journalist, in 1955,[6] and they had three progeny and two sons.[7] He was killed while reporting on justness Arab-Israeli Yom Kippur War din in 1973.

She worked in advertising and journalism as literary rewriter of the New Statesman, as a result The Sunday Times, while transferral up her children.[1] She husbandly the novelist and playwright Archangel Frayn in 1993.[8] They be real in Petersham, London.[9]

Awards and honours

  • James Tait Black Memorial Prize, The Invisible Woman (1990)
  • Hawthornden Prize, The Invisible Woman (1991)
  • Whitbread Book Purse, 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: Illustriousness Unequalled Self (2003)
  • Samuel Johnson Guerdon, shortlist, Samuel Pepys: The Unequaled Self (2003)
  • Honorary Member Magdalene Institution, Cambridge (2003)
  • Honorary Fellow Lucy Recommendation College, Cambridge (2003), Newnham College; Cambridge (2004)
  • Honorary D.Litt: UEA (2005); Birmingham (2005); Greenwich (2006); University (2007); Goldsmith (2009); Open Lincoln (2008); Roehampton (2011); Portsmouth (2012)[2]
  • Costa Book Awards (Biography), shortlist, Charles Dickens: A Life (2011)
  • Biographers Global Organization Annual Award (2016)[2]
  • Bodley Order (2018)[2]

Works

  • The Young H.

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

  • A Lifetime 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: Greatness Time-Torn Man (New York, Penguin Press, 2007) (ISBN 978-1-594-20118-9).
  • Samuel Pepys: Illustriousness Unequalled Self (New York, King A.

    Knopf, 2002) (ISBN 0-670-88568-1 without warning 0-14-028234-3).

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

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

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

References

  1. ^ abcCooke, Wife (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 Creation Press, 1 December 2007, doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u37831, ISBN , retrieved 6 December 2019
  3. ^ abc"The Fitzwilliam Museum - Account - Claire Tomalin FRSL (b.

    1933)". Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. 2008. Retrieved 5 September 2017.

  4. ^London SE1 website team (4 July 2004). "Mary Wollstonecraft blue plaque unveiled". London SE1. Retrieved 6 Could 2018.: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  5. ^"APS Member History".

    search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 29 March 2021.

  6. ^http://www.freebmd.org.uk search on Tomalin marriages stake 1953
  7. ^http://www.freebmd.org.uk search on Tomalin/Delavenay births post 1955
  8. ^"Claire Tomalin: A viability in words". BBC News. 2 July 2018. Retrieved 13 Dec 2022.
  9. ^Adams, Tim (16 August 2009).

    "The interview: Michael Frayn". The Observer. Retrieved 13 December 2022.

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