Word: tomalin
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...cynicism. Frayn's novels, notably Sweet Dreams and Towards the End of the Morning, also evoke the slow decay of marriage and depict children as noisy housewreckers. His own marriage effectively ended with a separation five years ago; his frequent companion, as British newspapers phrase it, is Claire Tomalin, literary editor of the London Sunday Times. Frayn says he remains close to his daughters, one a novice BBC staffer, another a would-be journalist, the third applying to universities. He admits that his sour descriptions of beleaguered parenthood and the "squalor of middle-class domestic life" derive from memory...
...AWARDED. CLAIRE TOMALIN, 69, British biographer, the 2002 Whitbread book-of-the-year award and its purse of $48,000, for Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self, a portrait of the 17th-century patrician playboy and diarist; in London. Tomalin beat her husband, novelist and playwright Michael Frayn, who won the best-novel prize for his thriller Spies...