27 February - Lawrence Durrell, novelist, poet, dramatist and travel writer - (died 1990 in France).
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During his literary career he became close friend of other writers and artists such as Lawrence Durrell, Albert Camus, Jean Genet and Giacometti.
There was the Personal Landscape group centred on the publication of that name, founded by Lawrence Durrell, Robin Fedden and Bernard Spencer.
Lawrence Durrell, the renowned author of The Alexandria Quartet, a series of interrelated novels that take as their subject matter the psychology of love and the shifting façades that human beings present to one another, lived here from 1933 to 1934, in a cottage called Chestnut Mead.
As an illustrator he studied under James Boswell, and worked with a number of eminent authors, including Robert Graves, Graham Greene, Brendan Behan, Lawrence Durrell, and William Golding.
Alan G. Thomas (1911–1992), British bibliophile and Lawrence Durrell scholar
The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell also has a vivid description of the Khamsin.