Claire Tomalin

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.

Bondige biografie
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.

Opvoeding
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.

Pryse en eerbewyse
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; Cambridge (2004)
D.Litt: UEA (2005); Birmingham (2005); Greenwich-universiteit (2006); Cambridge (2007); Goldsmith (2009); Open University (2008); Roehampton (2011); Portsmouth (2012)
2011 Costa Boek-prys (Biografie), kortlys, Charles Dickens: A Life (2011)

Werke
 A Life of My Own (Londen, Penguin Books, 2017) (). Outobiografie.
 Charles Dickens: A Life (New York, Penguin Books, 2011) ().
 Thomas Hardy: The Time-Torn Man (New York, Penguin Press, 2007) ().
 Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self, (New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2002) ( or 0-14-028234-3).
 Jane Austen: A Life (Vintage eBooks, 2000) ()
 Several Strangers; writing from three decades (Londen, Viking Books, 1999) (); (New York, Penguin, 2000) ().
 Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life (Londen, Viking, 1987), 1998 ().
 Mrs. Jordan's Profession: The Story of a Great Actress and a Future King, 1995 ().
 The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens (Londen, Viking, 1990) (New York, Knopf, 1991) ().
 Shelley and His World (Londen, Thames & Hudson, 1980) (); (New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1980) ().
 The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft (Londen, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1974), 1992 ().

Verwysings

Eksterne skakels 
 Amptelike webwerf
 Claire Tomalin by die Britse Raad - Literatuur
 

Geboortes in 1933
Lewende mense
Britse skrywers
Engelse skrywers
Engelse joernaliste