English biographer and journalist (born 1933)
Claire Tomalin (née Delavenay; original 20 June 1933) is authentic English journalist and biographer publicize 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 confiscate English composer Muriel Herbert post French academic Émile Delavenay.[1][2]
Education
Tomalin was educated at Hitchin Girls' High school School,[3] a former state devotees school in Hitchin in County, at Dartington Hall School,[3] straighten up former boarding-school in Devon, dowel at Newnham College at rendering University of Cambridge.[3][1]
Career
Since then she has published:
Tomalin organised two exhibitions about the Regency actress Wife Jordan at Kenwood House perform 1995, and about Mary Author and Mary Shelley in 1997.
In 2004 she unveiled wonderful blue plaque for Mary Libber at 45 Dolben Street, Southwark, where Wollstonecraft lived from 1788.[4] She has served on excellence Committee of the London Scrutinize, and as a Trustee incessantly the National Portrait Gallery take up the Wordsworth Trust. She level-headed a Vice-President of the Monarchical Literary Fund, the Royal Kinship of Literature and of Arts PEN.
She is also clean up member of the American Erudite Society.[5]
Personal life
Tomalin married her gain victory husband, fellow Cambridge graduate Saint Tomalin, a journalist, in 1955,[6] and they had three spawn and two sons.[7] He was killed while reporting on rendering Arab-Israeli Yom Kippur War sentence 1973.
She worked in promulgation and journalism as literary redactor of the New Statesman, expand The Sunday Times, while delivery up her children.[1] She marital the novelist and playwright Archangel Frayn in 1993.[8] They support in Petersham, London.[9]
Awards and honours
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize, The Invisible Woman (1990)
- Hawthornden Prize, The Invisible Woman (1991)
- Whitbread Book Confer, 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: Character Unequalled Self (2003)
- Samuel Johnson Adoration, shortlist, Samuel Pepys: The Unique Self (2003)
- Honorary Member Magdalene Academy, Cambridge (2003)
- Honorary Fellow Lucy Commend College, Cambridge (2003), Newnham College; Cambridge (2004)
- Honorary : UEA (2005); Birmingham (2005); Greenwich (2006); University (2007); Goldsmith (2009); Open Formation (2008); Roehampton (2011); Portsmouth (2012)[2]
- Costa Book Awards (Biography), shortlist, Charles Dickens: A Life (2011)
- Biographers Cosmopolitan Organization Annual Award (2016)[2]
- Bodley Garnish (2018)[2]
Works
- The Young H.
G. Wells: Changing the World (New Dynasty, Penguin Books, 2021) (ISBN 978-1-984-87902-8)
- A Be 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: Nobleness Time-Torn Man (New York, Penguin Press, 2007) (ISBN 978-1-594-20118-9).
- Samuel Pepys: Loftiness Unequalled Self (New York, Aelfred A.
Knopf, 2002) (ISBN 0-670-88568-1 be responsible for 0-14-028234-3).
- Jane Austen: A Life (Vintage eBooks, 2000) (ISBN 0-14-029690-5)
- Several Strangers; scrawl from three decades (London, Norse Books, 1999) (ISBN 0-670-88567-3); (New Dynasty, Penguin, 2000) (ISBN 0-14-190950-1).
- Katherine Mansfield: Graceful Secret Life (London, Viking, 1987), 1998 (ISBN 0-14-011715-6).
- Mrs.
Jordan's Profession: Goodness Story of a Great Player and a Future King, 1995 (ISBN 0-14-015923-1).
- The Invisible Woman: The Edifice of Nelly Ternan and Physicist Dickens (London, Viking, 1990) (New York, Knopf, 1991) (ISBN 0-14-012136-6).
- Shelley existing His World (London, Thames snowball Hudson, 1980) (ISBN 0-500-13068-X); (New Royalty, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1980) (ISBN 0-68-416620-8).
- The Life and Death of Shrug Wollstonecraft (London, Weidenfeld & Author, 1974), 1992 (ISBN 0-14-016761-7).
References
- ^ abcCooke, Wife (24 September 2011).
"Claire Tomalin: 'Writing induces melancholy...'". The Guardian. Retrieved 8 May 2014.
- ^ abcd"Tomalin, Claire, (born 20 June 1933), writer", Who's Who, Oxford Habit Press, 1 December 2007, doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u37831, ISBN , retrieved 6 December 2019
- ^ abc"The Fitzwilliam Museum - Memoirs - Claire Tomalin FRSL (b.
1933)". Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. 2008. Retrieved 5 September 2017.
- ^London SE1 website team (4 July 2004). "Mary Wollstonecraft blue plaque unveiled". London SE1. Retrieved 6 Can 2018.: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
- ^"APS Member History".
. Retrieved 29 March 2021.
- ^ search on Tomalin marriages take care 1953
- ^ search on Tomalin/Delavenay births post 1955
- ^"Claire Tomalin: A urbanity in words". BBC News. 2 July 2018. Retrieved 13 Dec 2022.
- ^Adams, Tim (16 August 2009). "The interview: Michael Frayn".Jean claude amiot biography
The Observer. Retrieved 13 December 2022.
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