Claire Tomalin is a former literary editor of the New Statesman and the Sunday Times . She has written seven highly acclaimed literary biographies, including Samuel Pepys, which won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award, and in 2011 the international bestseller Charles Dickens. She is married to the playwright and novelist Michael Frayn.
As near perfect a Life of Austen as we are likely to get:
intelligent, feeling, suggestive
*Daily Telegraph*
A book that radiates intelligence, wit and insight
*New York Times*
A perfect biography: detailed, witty, warm
*Sunday Telegraph*
Claire Tomalin is the finest and most disinterested of biographers,
because in her pages she has given Jane Austen her liberty
*New York Review of Books*
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