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A life of my own
- Title
- A life of my own / Claire Tomalin.
- Author
- Tomalin, Claire
- Publication
- [London] : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2017.
- ©2017
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 17-6411 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xii, 334 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- "Acclaimed biographer Claire Tomalin, the bestselling author of The Invisible Woman and Jane Austen, turns her critical eye to another fascinating literary life: her own. In this intimate and insightful memoir, Claire remembers moments of national literary history as well as intense personal emotion: a turbulent childhood disturbed by her parents' custody battle; her escape to Cambridge university, where she met her husband, the journalist Nick Tomalin; life on Gloucester Crescent with neighbours Alan Bennett and Mary-Kay Wilmers. Personally, tragedy struck when her husband was killed while reporting in Israel; professionally, Claire's career soared as she became literary editor of the New Statesman and the Sunday Times, working with Christopher Hitchens and Julian Barnes, before discovering her vocation as a biographer. An affair with a younger writer brought fleeting joy; the suicide of daughter brought infinite pain. Now married to playwright Michael Frayn, Claire reflects on an extraordinary life filled with love, loss and literature."--Publisher's description.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Autobiographies.
- Call Number
- JFD 17-6411
- ISBN
- 9780241239957
- 0241239958
- OCLC
- 1001389401
- Author
- Tomalin, Claire, author.
- Title
- A life of my own / Claire Tomalin.
- Publisher
- [London] : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2017.
- Copyright Date
- ©2017
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Other Form:
- ebook version : 9780241974827
- Research Call Number
- JFD 17-6411