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Claire Tomalin
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Claire Tomalin (born 20 June 1933) is an English biographer and journalist. She studied at Newnham College, Cambridge.
She was literary editor of the New Statesman and of the Sunday Times, and has written several noted biographies. Her biography of Samuel Pepys won the Whitbread Book Award in 2002, and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize in 2003.
Tomalin's first husband Nicholas Tomalin, a prominent journalist, was killed in the Arab-Israeli Yom Kippur War in 1973; she is now married to the novelist and playwright Michael Frayn.
She made a number of criticisms of the Samuel Pepys Wikipedia article in an article in The Guardian on 24 October 2005.[1]
- Thomas Hardy, 2007, ISBN 978-1594201189
- Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self, 2002, ISBN 0-670-88568-1 or ISBN 0-14-028234-3
- Fanny Burney, 2001, ISBN 978-0679446583
- Jane Austen: A Life, 2000, ISBN 0-14-029690-5
- Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life, 1998, ISBN 0-14-011715-6
- Mrs. Jordan's Profession: The Story of a Great Actress and a Future King, 1995, ISBN 0-14-015923-1
- The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft, 1992, ISBN 0-14-016761-7
- Shelley and His World, 1992, ISBN 978-0140171525
- The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens, 1991, ISBN 0-14-012136-6
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