Lafcadio Hearn, International Writer(1850-1904)

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Just the Facts:

• Name: Lafcadio Hearn
• Also known as: Koizumi Yakumo
• Birth: June 27, 1850, Lefkada, Greece
• Death: September 26, 1904, Tokyo, Japan
• Languages: English; Greek (?); Japanese (?)
• Who he was: International writer whose most famous works in Japan include: Kwaidan; Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan; Kokoro; Gleanings in Buddha-Fields; In Ghostly Japan. New Orleans work includes: Gombo Zhèbes: Little Dictionary of Creole Proverbs; La Cuisine Créole; Chita: A Memory of Last Island

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