Anniversaries, 14 March
Algernon Blackwood
The British author Algernon Henry Blackwood grew up in a strictly religious home in Kent. He soon abandoned his Christian faith for Buddhism, thereby laying the foundation for a life-long interest in Eastern mysticism, the occult and Theosophy. He spent a year between 1885 and 1886 with the Moravian Brethren in Germany, and after a failed business attempt he became a dairy farmer in Canada in 1890. Two years later he travelled to New York where he worked as a reporter for the New York Sun,...
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Robinson, Peter
Peter Robinson is a Canadian author born in Castleford, Yorkshire, England. He was a wayward teenager with little interest in attending school until he enrolled at the University of Leeds from which he graduated with a BA in English literature in 1974. Later the same year he moved to Canada where he attended the University of Windsor, Ontario, studying for an MA in English and creative writing...