Profiles and Reviews
Valerie Grove’s portrait of the author in The Literary Review. Read here
Dwight Garner reviews A life of My Own in The New York Times. 'An award-winning biographer’s latest subject: herself'. Read here
Rachel Cooke's profile of Claire in celebration of the bicentenary of Dickens's birth. Read here
Boyd Tonkin reviews Charles Dickens: A Life for The Independent, stating that "as a biographer, Tomalin remains (as her subject called himself ) 'inimitable.'" Read here
William Boyd reviews Claire's biography of Dickens for The Guardian, calling it "a superb biography of a great writer." Read here
Thomas Mallon reviews Thomas Hardy: The Time-Torn Man for The New York Times, writing, "Tomalin comes through, recounting Hardy’s life with the amiable authority of a 19th-century novelist, unafraid of gentle, but firm, pronouncements." Read here
John Crace profiles Claire Tomalin in The Guardian. Read here
Gaby Wood reviews Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self in The Observer. Read here
Aida Edemariam interviews Claire Tomalin in The Guardian. Read here
Samuel Pepys: The unequalled Self wins the Whitbread book of the year. Read here
Claire Tomalin describes the loose ends and fresh discoveries that dog - and sometimes delight - the conscientious biographer. Read here
Videos
Ben Mortimer interviews Claire Tomalin at the premiere of the The Invisible Woman, directed by Ralph Fiennes
Mariella Frostrup interviews Claire Tomalin about her critically acclaimed biography of Charles Dickens
Claire Tomalin in conversation with John Mullan at the British Councils seminar in Berlin, entitled “What would Dickens Write Today?”
Newnham Literary Archive launch talk given by Claire Tomalin.
Claire Tomalin has been included in the recently published Wiki: In-Depth Biographies About Fascinating People
Podcasts
A conversation with Claire and her editor, Tony Lacey, from The Penguin Podcast.
Claire speaks about Samuel Pepys as part of 32 Londoners, a series of talks in spring 2014 that took place on the London Eye, in association with Antique Beat and A Curious Invitation.
Radio Interviews
Eleanor Wachtel of CBC Books interviews Claire about her bestselling biography of Dickens. Listen here
James Naughtie of BBC Bookclub speaks to Claire's about her biography of Thomas Hardy. Listen here