Claire Tomalin
Autor/a de Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self
Sobre l'autor
Obres de Claire Tomalin
Thomas Hardy: The Time Torn Man 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Maurice, or the Fisher's Cot: A Long-Lost Tale (1998) — Introducció, algunes edicions — 127 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Altres noms
- Delavenay, Claire
- Data de naixement
- 1933-06-20
- Gènere
- female
- Nacionalitat
- UK
- Lloc de naixement
- London, England, UK
- Llocs de residència
- London, England, UK
- Educació
- University of Cambridge (Newnham College)
- Professions
- journalist
broadcaster
biographer
historian
literary editor - Relacions
- Tomalin, Nicholas (husband)
Frayn, Michael (husband)
Delavenay, Emile (father)
Herbert, Muriel (mother) - Organitzacions
- The New Statesman
The Sunday Times - Premis i honors
- Médaille Bodley (2018)
Prix annuel de l' organisation internationale des biographes (2016) - Agent
- David Godwin (David Godwin Associates)
Membres
Ressenyes
Llistes
Best Biographies (3)
Morphy Pick! (1)
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 18
- També de
- 3
- Membres
- 6,758
- Popularitat
- #3,623
- Valoració
- 4.0
- Ressenyes
- 144
- ISBN
- 167
- Llengües
- 10
- Preferit
- 22
I have previously hugely enjoyed Tomalin’s biographies of Samuel Pepys, Jane Austen, Mary Wollstonecraft and the young H.G. Wells, so I had pretty high hopes for this autobiography, published in 2017 when she was already 84 (she turned 90 in June). And it pretty much fulfilled them.
Tomalin is the daughter of an English musician and a French writer, who married too young and were already on the verge of separation when she was conceived. She too married young, finding a journalist chap while a student at Cambridge, and the relationship deteriorated into on-again-off-again until he was killed covering the Yom Kippur war, exactly fifty years ago last month. But they had five children, two of who died, one as a baby, the other in her early 20s; and their surviving son has a serious disability. She tells us much less about her second husband, Michael Frayn, which is a little disappointing. But there is still plenty of personal material to draw on, with her literary endeavours a secondary theme. The hilarious contact lens scene from Noises Off was inspired by something that actually happened to Tomalin while on holiday with Frayn.
Writing of her time at Cambridge, she says that she gave up writing poetry because she felt she was not good enough at it; but this “left an emptiness in my life which has never quite been filled.” I find that rather sad. Her biographies are superlative, but I guess she feels that there was something more creative that was possible and that she missed out on. There is still time.… (més)