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SUMMARY:Claire Tomalin In Conversation with Alan Rusbridger - Claire Tomal
 in\, Alan Rusbridger (Lady Margaret Hall)
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DESCRIPTION:Claire Tomalin\, née Delavenay\, was born in 1933 in London t
 o an English mother\, the composer Muriel Herbert (linnrecords.com)\, and 
 a French father. After a somewhat disorganised wartime childhood she studi
 ed at Cambridge\, married the journalist Nicholas Tomalin\, worked in publ
 ishing and journalism as literary editor of the New Statesman\, then the S
 unday Times\, while bringing up their children. Nick was killed reporting 
 the Yom Kippur war in 1973. In 1974 she published her first book The Life 
 and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft\, which won the Whitbread First Book Priz
 e. Since then she has written Shelley and His World 1980\; Katherine Mansf
 ield: A Secret Life 1987\; The Invisible Woman: the story of Nelly Ternan 
 and Charles Dickens 1991 [NCR\, Hawthornden\, James Tait Black prizes\, an
 d a film with Ralph Fiennes\, Felicity Jones\, Joanna Scanlan\, Tom Hollan
 der]\; Mrs Jordan's Profession 1994\; Jane Austen: A Life 1997\; Samuel Pe
 pys: the Unequalled Self 2002 [Whitbread biography and Book of the Year pr
 izes\, Pepys Society Prize\, Rose Crawshay Prize]. Thomas Hardy: The Time-
 Torn Man appeared in 2006\, after which she made a television film about H
 ardy with Melvyn Bragg\, and published a selection of Hardy’s poems. Her
  Charles Dickens: A Life was published in 2011. A collection of her review
 s\, Several Strangers\, appeared in 1999\, and a memoir\, A Life of My Own
 \, in 2017.\n\nHer books are translated into many languages. She has honor
 ary doctorates from Cambridge\, UEA\, Birmingham\, the Open University\, G
 reenwich\, Goldsmith\, Roehampton\, Portsmouth and York universities.\n\nS
 he has served on the Committee of the London Library and as a Trustee of t
 he National Portrait Gallery and the Wordsworth Trust. She is a Vice-Presi
 dent of the Royal Literary Fund\, of the Royal Society of Literature and o
 f English PEN. She lives in London and is married to the playwright and no
 velist Michael Frayn.\nSpeakers:\nClaire Tomalin\, Alan Rusbridger (Lady M
 argaret Hall)
LOCATION:Lady Margaret Hall (Simpkins Lee Theatre)\, Norham Gardens OX2 6Q
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