So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it.
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The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best sellers among them are least likely to withstand the test of time.
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| Birth: | 5th July, 1904 |
| Death: | 27th February, 1994 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Profession: | Writer |
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Sir Harold Mario Mitchell Acton was born in Galluzzo, Florence, Italy. He was a British historical writer and poet. His non-historical works include four volumes of poetry, three novels, two novellas, two volumes of short stories, a memoir of Nancy Mitford, and two volumes of autobiography. He wrote several books include: Aquarium(poem), The last Medici, Peonies and ponies, Memoirs of an aesthete, Prince Isidore, The Bourbons of Naples, Tuscan Villas, Nancy Mitford: A Memoir, The Pazzi Conspiracy, Three Extraordinary Ambassadors, and Modern Chinese poetry(with Shixiang Chen).
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