Claire Tomalin (born June 20, 1933) is an English biographer and journalist. She studied at Newnham College, Cambridge. June 20 is the 171st day of the year (172nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 194 days remaining. ... 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: Multiple unofficial anthems Capital London Largest city London Official language(s) English Government Constitutional monarchy  - Queen Queen Elizabeth II  - Prime Minister Tony Blair MP Unification    - by Athelstan AD927  Area    - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK)   50,346 sq mi   - Water (%) Population... Full name Newnham College Motto - Named after Its location in the village of Newnham Previous names Newnham Hall Established 1871 Sister College(s) Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford Principal The Lady ONeill of Bengarve Location Sidgwick Avenue Undergraduates 396 Postgraduates 120 Homepage Boatclub A view of the Clough and Kennedy...

She was literary editor of the New Statesman and of the Sunday Times, and has written several noted biographies. Her biography of Samuel Pepys won the Whitbread Book Award in 2002, and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize in 2003. The New Statesman is a left-of-centre political weekly published in London. ... The Sunday Times is a Sunday broadsheet newspaper distributed in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland, published by Times Newspapers Ltd, a subsidiary of News International which is in turn owned by News Corporation. ... Portrait of Samuel Pepys by John Hayls. ... The Whitbread Book Awards are among the United Kingdoms most prestigious literary awards. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... The Samuel Johnson Prize is one of the worlds most prestigious awards for non-fiction writing. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Tomalin's first husband Nicholas Tomalin, a prominent journalist, was killed in the Arab-Israeli Yom Kippur War in 1973; she is now married to the novelist and playwright Michael Frayn. Combatants Israel Egypt Syria Jordan Iraq Commanders Moshe Dayan David Elazar Ariel Sharon Shmuel Gonen Benjamin Peled Saad El Shazly Ahmad Ismail Ali Hosni Mubarak Mohammed Aly Fahmy Anwar Sadat Abdel Ghani el-Gammasy Abdul Munim Wassel Abd-Al-Minaam Khaleel Abu Zikry Mustafa Tlass[2], [3] Strength 415,000... 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday. ... Michael Frayn (born 8 September 1933) is an English playwright and novelist. ...

She made a number of criticisms of the Samuel Pepys Wikipedia article in an article in The Guardian on October 24, 2005.^[1] Portrait of Samuel Pepys by John Hayls. ... The Guardian is a British newspaper owned by the Guardian Media Group. ... October 24 is the 297th day of the year (298th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 68 days remaining. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Selected works

• Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self, 2002, ISBN 0-670-88568-1 or ISBN 0-14-028234-3
• Jane Austen: A Life, 2000, ISBN 0-14-029690-5
• Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life, 1998, ISBN 0-14-011715-6
• Mrs. Jordan's Profession: The Story of a Great Actress and a Future King, 1995, ISBN 0-14-015923-1
• The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft, 1992, ISBN 0-14-016761-7
• The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens, 1991, ISBN 0-14-012136-6

Notes

1. ^ Guardian article Can you trust Wikipedia?, October 24, 2005