Claire Tomalin

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Claire Tomalin (born June 20 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 Six Day 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 October 24, 2005.[Guardian article Can you trust Wikipedia?, October 24, 2005]

Selected works

• Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self, 2002, ISBN 0670885681 or ISBN 0140282343
• Jane Austen: A Life, 2000, ISBN 0140296905
• Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life, 1998, ISBN 0140117156
• Mrs. Jordan's Profession: The Story of a Great Actress and a Future King, 1995, ISBN 0140159231
• The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft, 1992, ISBN 0140167617
• The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens, 1991, ISBN 0140121366

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