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Name: Lafcadio Hearn
Birth Date: June 27, 1850
Death Date: September 26, 1904
Place of Birth: Santa Maura, Greece
Place of Death: Okubo, Japan
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: author

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Biography of Lafcadio Hearn
449 words, approx. 2 pages
Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904), European-born American author, wrote novels and articles with exotic themes in highly precise and polished prose. Lafcadio Hearn was born June 27, 1850, on the Greek island of Santa Maura. His mother was Maltese and his...
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Biography of (Patricio) Lafcadio (Tessima Carlos) Hearn
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At the turn of the century Lafcadio Hearn was considered one of the finest prose stylists in the United States. His enormous output ranges from early articles written for Cincinnati newspapers to a series of volumes on Japan, the country where he spent...
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Biography of (Patricio) Lafcadio (Tessima Carlos) Hearn
3,647 words, approx. 12 pages
Patricio Lafcadio Tessima Carlos Hearn led an exotic and restless life from his birth on an island off the coast of Greece until his death in Japan fifty-four years later. He lived in loneliness in Ireland, England, and France as a child. He spent two...
 


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Lafcadio Hearn Information
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Patrick Lafcadio Hearn (June 27, 1850 - September 26, 1904), also known as Koizumi Yakumo (小泉八雲) after gaining Japanese citizenship, was an author, best known for his books about Japan. He is especially well-known for his collections of Japanese...


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Ideas on Liberty
Lafcadio Hearn
07/01/2002: 713 words, approx. 2 pages
Nearly a century after his death, Lafcadio Hearn is widely unknown. Kokoro: Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life (1896) is being republished this year, but much of Hearn's work is out of print, and it's hard to find Hearn on library shelves or...
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Journal of American Folklore
Lafcadio Hearn's America: Ethnographic Sketches and Editorials
04/01/2004: 801 words, approx. 3 pages
Lafcadio Hearn's America: Ethnographic Sketches and Editorials. By Lafcadio Hearn. Ed. Simon J. Bronner. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2002. Pp. x + 242, bibliography, illustrations, index.) By editing this volume of Lafcadio Ream's essays on American culture, Simon Bronner has done a...
 


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