biography
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Douglas, Norman (George)
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| lived:
| (1868–1952)
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| biography:
| Travel writer, novelist, and essayist, born in Thüringen, Austria. Educated in England and Germany, he spent much of his life in continental Europe. His first book, Unprofessional Tales (1901), appeared under the pseudonym Normyx. Siren Land (1911), an exotic account of his travels in S Italy, was followed by Old Calabria (1915), Fountains of the Sun (1912), Alone (1921), and Together (1923). The most famous of his novels is South Wind, a celebration of hedonism on the island of Nepenthe (Capri). An autobiography, Looking Back, appeared in 1933. A friend of the cookery writer Elizabeth David, he published Venus in the Kitchen (1952), a collection of aphrodisiac recipes. |
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