Claire Tomalin, this year's Whitbread award winner with Samuel Pepys: the unequalled self, answers your questions about delving into the lives of others, a writer's day, and keeping diaries.
January 2003
Tomalin wins Whitbread book of the year
The authentic smell of Pepys's London
11th February 1963 by Paul Farley
All life is here
Gaby Wood
Move over, Seamus
Anything you can do
Late starter
Family saga as Frayn and Tomalin vie for Whitbread
November 2002
Natural selection
Pens at dawn
Kitchen sink drama as literary couple vie for prize
Husband and wife go head to head for Whitbread prize
A biographer's dream
Fiction section of the library
October 2002
Pepys show
Hermione Lee is gripped by Claire Tomalin's account of the great diarist, Samuel Pepys
