Robert Graves
Full Name: | Robert von Ranke Graves |
Born: | July 24, 1895 Wimbledon, London, England |
Died: | December 7, 1985 DeiĆ , Majorca, Spain |
Occupation: | Novelist, Poet, Soldier |
Nationality: | British |
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Biography
ROBERT GRAVES (1895-1985) was an English poet, translator, and novelist, one of the leading English men of letters in the twentieth century. He fought in World War I and won international acclaim in 1929 with the publication of his memoir of the First World War, Good-bye to All That. After the war, he was granted a classical scholarship at Oxford and subsequently went to Egypt as the first professor of English at the University of Cairo. He is most noted for his series of novels about the Roman emperor Claudius and his works on mythology, such as The White Goddess.
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