Interesting tidbits about British Literature authors used in our Junior Research Project
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Was a member of an opera
company chorus.
Died at 34 of tuberculosis.
Red Cross volunteer in Alexandria, Egypt.
Accomplished amateur pianist.
Is a licensed pharmacist.
Wrote a play about Virginia Woolf.
Was an apprentice pharmacist.
Worked at Hyde's Southsea
Drapery Emporium.
Founder of the British Diabetic Association.
Served as an air raid warden.
Renowned as a talented hostess
with lively parties.
Received no formal education.
Was a prolific diarist.
Was a formidable bowler.
Had a pronounced stutter.
Was a covert intelligence agent in WW I.
Earned a medical degree but
never practiced.
Born in Kermansha, Persia (now Iran).
Grew up on a family farm in Africa.
Was a clerk in a leather warehouse.
Published under the pseudonym
"Flying Officer X."
Studied singing and piano in Paris.
Has the longest running play production
in British theater history.
Had a heart ailment.
Published first story at age 15.
Attended the Convent of our Lady of Mercy for school.
Born in Motihari, India.
Joined the Indian Imperial Police.
Married Sonia Brownell only 4 months before he died.
Worked at the Post Office Savings Bank for nearly 20 years.
Grew up in a sea town
& his dad managed a wharf.
Published first novel before the age of 21.
Rejected for admission to a university physics program because he was too young.
Won a scholarship to Oxford University.
Was an accomplished Dante scholar,
and taught herself Italian.
Died of a heart attack on Valentine's Day.
Worked as a lyricist
with George Gershwin & Jerome Kern.
Born in Berdiczew, Poland.
Worked as a ship's officer,
traveling the world, for 20 years.
Loved pranks & practical jokes.
Served as the lone officer for a Secret Intelligence Service outpost in Sierra Leone.
Close friend of Teddy Roosevelt.
After throwing away a bad report card,
he had to walk to school with a sign that said LIAR between his shoulders.
Educated for the priesthood as a child.
Worked as a lumberjack.
Founded the Irish Communist Party.
Grew up in a theater family,
with parents who were both actors.
Adopted an alter ego named "Eric Avon"
as a child.
Educated by Jesuits.
Worked as a language instructor.
Died following surgery for
a perforated ulcer.
Was a librarian.
Was a member of the Irish
Republican Army.
Spent one year as a policeman in Burma.
Killed in action in France during WW I.
Loved playing with his dog
& his 6 computers.
Considered the inventor
of communications satellites.
Hoped to one day establish a utopian community in the Southwest U.S.
Suffered & died from tuberculosis
