Dickens biography claire tonalin

Her first book, The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft, won the Whitbread First Book Award, and she has since written a number of highly acclaimed and bestselling biographies. In the highly acclaimed Charles Dickens: A Life, she presents a full-scale biography of our greatest novelist. She is married to the writer Michael Frayn. Jane Austen Claire Tomalin.

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She worked in publishing and journalism as literary editor of the New Statesman , then The Sunday Times , while bringing up her children. Contents move to sidebar hide. Article Talk. Read Edit View history. Tools Tools. Download as PDF Printable version. In other projects.

Dickens biography claire tonalin

Wikimedia Commons Wikidata item. English biographer and journalist born Nicholas Tomalin. When he died, the world mourned, and he was buried - against his wishes - in Westminster Abbey. Yet the brilliance concealed a divided character: a republican, he disliked America; sentimental about the family in his writings, he took up passionately with a young actress; usually generous, he cut off his impecunious children.

Claire Tomalin, author of Whitbread Book of the Year Samuel Pepys , paints an unforgettable portrait of Dickens, capturing brilliantly the complex character of this great genius. Charles Dickens: A Life is the examination of Dickens we deserve. About the author About the author. Claire Tomalin Claire Tomalin was literary editor of the New Statesman then the Sunday Times before leaving to become a full-time writer.

Her first book, The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft , won the Whitbread First Book Award, and she has since written a number of highly acclaimed and bestselling biographies.