Claire Tomalin is the author of eight highly acclaimed biographies, including THOMAS HARDY and SAMUEL PEPYS: The Unequalled Self, which won the 2002 Whitbread Book of the Year Award. She has previously won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography, the Whitbread First Novel Award, the Hawthornden Prize, the NCR Book Award for Non-Fiction, and the Whitbread Biography Award.

Books by Claire Tomalin

The Invisible Woman: The Story of Charles Dickens and Nelly Ternan

by Claire Tomalin - Biography, Nonfiction

Charles Dickens and Nelly Ternan met in 1857; she was 18, a hard-working actress performing in his production of The Frozen Deep, and he was 45, the most lionized writer in England. Out of their meeting came a love affair that lasted 13 years and destroyed Dickens’s marriage while effacing Nelly Ternan from the public record.

Thomas Hardy

by Claire Tomalin - Biography, Nonfiction