Tomalin, Claire

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The Young H.G. Wells: Changing the World

An intriguing, intimate look into what drove this important person’s life and shaped his opinions.
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A Life of My Own

Now in her eighties, Tomalin offers an elegant, inspiring, and informative look at the literary life. Recommended for memoir fans and lovers of excellent writing. [See Prepub Alert, 2/26/18.]
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Charles Dickens

Michael Slater's recent biography examines Dickens's literary works more deeply; Tomalin's focus is the writer himself. While it neither offers much in the way of new insights nor replaces classic studies of Dickens, Tomalin's entertaining book deserves to be the go-to popular biography for readers new to Boz and his works. (Index not seen.)
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Charles Dickens

Tomalin having won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography, the Hawthornden Prize, and the Whitbread Biography Award, among others, I don't think we'll have much quarrel with her life of Charles Dickens...
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