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A life of my own

"In A Life of My Own, the renowned biographer of Charles Dickens, Samuel Pepys, and Thomas Hardy, and former literary editor for the Sunday Times reflects on a remarkable life surrounded by writers and books."--Amazon.com summary.

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Main Author:	Tomalin, Claire (Author)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	[New York?] : Penguin Books, 2019.
Subjects:	Tomalin, Claire. Critics > England > Biography. Editors > England > Biography. Biographies.
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Summary:	"In A Life of My Own, the renowned biographer of Charles Dickens, Samuel Pepys, and Thomas Hardy, and former literary editor for the Sunday Times reflects on a remarkable life surrounded by writers and books."--Amazon.com summary.
Physical Description:	xiv, 334 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (page 334).
ISBN:	0399562931 9780399562938
Author Notes:	Claire Tomalin is the author of eight highly acclaimed biographies, including Thomas Hardy and Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self , which won the 2002 Whitbread Book of the Year Award. She has previously won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography, the Whitbread First Novel Award, the Hawthornden Prize, the NCR Book Award for Non-Fiction, and the Whitbread Biography Award. Educated at Cambridge University, she served as literary editor of the New Statesman and the Sunday Times (London). Claire Tomalin lives in London and is married to the playwright Michael Frayn.