Word: balzac
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...admission to a college because he flunked an English entrance examination and an oral intelligence test. Later someone investigated his high-school record, learned that at twelve he had read all of Shakespeare's plays and written an essay on Shakespeare in Politics; at 13 he read Hugo, Balzac, Molière and Racine (in French) and wrote book reviews for a local newspaper; at 14 he learned Spanish by himself and translated three French comedies into English; at 15 he wrote a book on geography in French literature...