Claire Tomalin was born in London in 1933 of a French father and an
English mother, and was educated at Newnham College, Cambridge. She
has worked in publishing and journalism all her life, becoming
literary editor first of the New Statesman and then of the Sunday
Times, which she left in 1986.
She is also the author of The Life and Death of Mary
Wollstonecraft, which won the Whitbread First Book Prize for 1974;
Shelley and His World (reissued by Penguin in 1992); Katherine
Mansfield- A Secret Life (Penguin 1988), a biography of the
modernist writer on whom she also based her 1991 play The Winter
Wife; the highly-acclaimed The Invisible Woman- The Story of Nelly
Ternan and Charles Dickens (Penguin 1991), which won the NCR Book
Award for 1991, as well as the Hawthornden Prize and the 1990 James
Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography; and Mrs Jordan's
Profession (Penguin 1995), a study of the Regency actress. Other
books written for Penguin are- Jane Austen- A Life and a collection
of memoirs entitled Several Strangers.
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