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WHAT WOULD DICKENS WRITE TODAY? |
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Biographer Claire Tomalin was born in London and attended Newnham College, Cambridge.
After leaving university she got a job as an editorial assistant and reader at the publishers Heinemann, and in 1974 published her first book, The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft, which won the Whitbread First Book Award in the same year.
She became literary editor of the New Statesman magazine and later the Sunday Times newspaper. A series of highly acclaimed biographies followed, including Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life (1987) and Jane Austen: A Life (1997).
Her account of Charles Dickens' relationship with the actress Nelly Ternan, The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens, was published in 1990 and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (for biography), the NCR Book Award for Non-Fiction and the Hawthornden Prize.
Her biography of the seventeenth-century diarist Samuel Pepys, Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self (2002), won the Samuel Pepys Award, and the 2002 Whitbread Book of the Year and Biography of the Year awards.
Thomas Hardy: The Time-Torn Man (2006), was shortlisted for the British Book Awards Biography of the Year.
Claire Tomalin has also written a play, The Winter Wife (1991), which is based on her own biography of Katherine Mansfield, and she edited the first edition of a previously undiscovered manuscript by Mary Shelley, Maurice, or the Fisher's Cot, first published in 1998. Most recently she has selected and edited two books of poetry: The Poems of Thomas Hardy (2007), and The Poems of John Milton (2008).
Her latest book is a biography of Charles Dickens entitled Charles Dickens: A Life, which is due to be published in the autumn of 2011.
Selected Reviews
On “Charles Dickens: A Life”
www.guardian.co.uk
On “Charles Dickens: A Life”
www.telegraph.co.uk
Interview/review of “Charles Dickens: A Life”:
www.independent.co.uk
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Dickens 2012 digital 
