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...Author. His father cowed by business disaster, himself bullied as a school child. Author Salten learned young to pity both men and animals. Born in Ofenpest, Austria, in 1869, he had to make a living out of family charity until his writing began to pay. Thereafter, besides practicing journalism in Vienna, he has written some 20 books. Bambi, his first book published in America, telling the life story of a buck in the Wienerwald, was a great success. Others: The Hound of Florence, Fifteen Rabbits, Samson & Delilah...
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