Word: girgenti
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Author, though he is known to would-be thoughtful playgoers on both sides of the Atlantic as a deliciously or irritatingly mystifying playwright, got to the ripe age of 45 without writing a play. Born in Girgenti, Sicily (1867) as son of a sulphur-mine owner, he wrote five books of poetry before he was 23, took his degree in philosophy at Germany's University of Bonn, and went back to Rome to teach Italian literature to women. After he had published 20 books of short stories and three novels, a playwright friend persuaded him to dramatize...
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