Oliver Goldsmith
1728
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1774
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: Kingdom of Ireland, Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom
native language: English
educated at: University of Edinburgh, Trinity College Dublin, Sligo Grammar School
occupation: physician, physician writer, poet, playwright, literary critic, novelist, writer, essayist, polygraph, dramaturge, theatrical producer
Oliver Goldsmith (10 November 1728 – 4 April 1774) was a well-known Anglo-Irish novelist, playwright, dramatist and poet, who is noted for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), his pastoral poem The Deserted Village (1770), and his plays The Good-Natur'd Man (1768) and She Stoops to Conquer (1771, first performed in 1773). He is thought by some to have written the classic children's tale The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes (1765). Source: Wikipedia (en)
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