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02047aam a2200289Ii 4500 001 D9D3F730370411E887D7D95B97128E48 003 SILO 005 20180403010230 008 170505t20172017enka 000 0aeng d 020 $a 0241239958 020 $a 9780241239957 035 $a (OCoLC)1001389401 040 $a NLE $b eng $e rda $c NLE $d OCLCO $d CDX $d UAB $d YDX $d NZAUC $d OCLCO $d VP@ $d SILO 043 $a e-uk--- 050 4 $a DA591 T66 A3 2017 100 1 $a Tomalin, Claire, $e author. 245 12 $a A life of my own / $c Claire Tomalin. 264 1 $a [London] : $b Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books, $c 2017. 300 $a xii, 334 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm 520 $a "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. 600 10 $a Tomalin, Claire. 650 0 $a Biographers $z Great Britain $v Biography. 776 08 $i ebook version : $z 9780241974827 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20211102015913.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=D9D3F730370411E887D7D95B97128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search