Did St. Francis really preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats.
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Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs.
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| Birth: | 21st December, 1892 |
| Death: | 15th March, 1983 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Profession: | Writer |
About
Cicely Isabel Fairfield, known by her pen name Rebecca West, or Dame Rebecca West, DBE was an English author, journalist, literary critic and travel writer. A prolific, protean author who wrote in many genres, West was committed to feminist and liberal principles and was one of the foremost public intellectuals of the twentieth century. She reviewed books for The Times, the New York Herald Tribune, the Sunday Telegraph, and the New Republic, and she was a correspondent for The Bookman.
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