Claire Tomalin (born Claire Delavenay on 20 June 1933 in London) is an English biographer and journalist. She was educated at Newnham College, Cambridge.
She was literary editor of the New Statesman and of the Sunday Times, and has written several noted biographies. Claire Tomalin is Vice-President of the Royal Society of Literature and of the English PEN.
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.
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