Award Winning Books by
CLAIRE TOMALIN
| Whitbread Award winner Claire Tomalin's seminal biography of the enigmatic novelist and poet Thomas Hardy.
Today Thomas Hardy is best known for creating the great Wessex landscape as the backdrop to his rural stories, starting with Far from the Madding Crowd, and making them classics. But his true legacy is that of a progressive thinker. When he published Tess of the d'Urbervi...
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| For a decade, beginning in 1660, an ambitious young London civil servant kept an astonishingly candid account of his life during one of the most defining periods in British history. In Samuel Pepys, Claire Tomalin offers us a fully realized and richly nuanced portrait of this man, whose inadvertent masterpiece would establish him as the greatest diarist in the English language.
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Claire Tomalin Award Stats |
Major Prize* Nominations |
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Unique Books Nominated for a Major Prize* |
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Pulitzer Prize Wins |
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National Book Critics Circle Award Wins |
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National Book Critics Circle Award Nominations |
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National Book Award Wins |
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Man Booker Prize Wins |
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*Major Prize = Pulitzer Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Award, Man Booker Prize, and PEN/Faulkner Award
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