Anniversaries, 5 February
William S. Burroughs
American author born in St. Louis, Missouri. Burroughs came from a prominent family and was educated at the Los Alamos Ranch School, the most expensive private school in the United States at the time. He attended Harvard University and studied English and anthropology as a postgraduate student after which he went on to read medicine in Vienna. He moved to New York in 1944 and worked there as a bartender, copywriter, vermin exterminator and private detective while he developed a serious drug...
Anniversaries, 5 February
Susan Hill
Susan Hill is a British author. In 1961, she published the first of the over 50 works she has produced over her fifty-year-long career. Hill grew up in Scarborough, Yorkshire. As a child she enjoyed drama and reading. When she was sixteen, the family moved to Coventry where she attended Garr’s Hill girls’ grammar school. She went on to study at King’s College, London, graduating with a BA in English in 1963.
Susan Hill published her first novel, The Enclosure (1961), at the age of 19, while sh...
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