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Claire Tomalin

English Author

Born: Jun 20, 1933

About Always Dickens Life People You

Related authors: A. A. Milne H. G. Wells J. K. Rowling Lewis Carroll Mary Shelley Samuel Johnson Simon Sinek Terry Pratchett

In 2007, several musicologists contacted me at about the same time, expressing interest in the work of the mysterious Muriel Herbert, a few of whose songs they had come across. Claire Tomalin

Work Time Me Few Several About Mysterious Had Songs Come Same Same Time Interest Across Expressing Whose Herbert

I was working at the 'Evening Standard' when I heard that there was a job going as deputy literary editor on the 'New Statesman.' I remember thinking, 'That's perfect.' It was three days a week, and I had children, but I could make that work - so I applied for it and got it. Claire Tomalin

Work Remember Job Three Thinking Statesman Perfect Week Could Had New Days Make Got Editor Heard Going Children Literary Deputy Working Standard Evening Applied

I thought it was a glorious thing to be a critic and to be a literary editor, and one was really doing something that mattered: to keep up standards, to take books seriously. Claire Tomalin

Seriously Thought Glorious Books Critic Something Take Editor Doing Up Mattered Literary Really Standards Keep Thing

Dickens never joined a political party nor put forward a political programme. He was a writer who rightly saw his power as coming through his fiction. Claire Tomalin

Because my father is French, my first school was the Lycee Francais de Londres in Kensington. Claire Tomalin

School Father First French Because

Biographies are, in their nature, far more difficult to make into films than novels, because novels come with plots constructed and dialogue written, whereas I don't invent dialogue for my subjects or plot their lives for them. Claire Tomalin

Biographers search for traces, for evidence of activity, for signs of movement, for letters, for diaries, for photographs. Claire Tomalin

Signs Evidence Photographs Traces Diaries Movement Search Activity Letters

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