Claire Tomalin (gebore as Claire Delavenay op 20 Junie 1933) is 'n Engelse outeur en joernalis wat bekend is om haar biografieë van Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Samuel Pepys, Jane Austen, en Mary Wollstonecraft. Tomalin was as Claire Delavenay op 20 Junie 1933 in Londen gebore as die dogter van die Franse akademikus Émile Delavenay en die Engelse komponis Muriel Herbert. Tomalin was by Hitchin Girls' School, 'n voormalige staatskool in Hitchin in Hertfordshire en by Dartington Hall School, 'n voormalige kosskool in Dartington naby Totnes in Devon, en Newnham Kollege, Cambridge by die Universiteit van Cambridge opgevoed. James Tait Black Gedenkprys, The Invisible Woman (1990) Hawthornden-prys, The Invisible Woman (1991) Whitbread Boek-prys, Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self (2002) Rose Mary Crawshay-prys, Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self (2003) Samuel Pepys-prys van die Samuel Pepys-klub, Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self (2003) Samuel Johnson-prys, kortlys, Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self (2003) Erelid, Magdalene Kollege, Cambridge, Cambridge (2003) Honorêre genoot, Lucy Cavendish Kollege, Cambridge, Cambridge (2003), Newnham Kollege, Cambridge;