Ann Thwaite

Ann Thwaite is a British writer who is the author of five major biographies. AA Milne: His Life was the Whitbread Biography of the Year, 1990. Edmund Gosse: A Literary Landscape was described by John Carey as "magnificent - one of the finest literary biographies of our time". Glimpses of the Wonderful about the life of Edmund Gosse's father, Philip Henry Gosse, was picked out by D. J. Taylor in The Independent as one of the "Ten Best Biographies" ever. Her biography of Frances Hodgson Burnett was originally published as Waiting for the Party (1974) and reissued in 2020 with the title Beyond the Secret Garden, with a foreword by Jacqueline Wilson. Emily Tennyson, The Poet's Wife (1996) was reissued by Faber Finds for the Tennyson bicentenary in 2009. ^{Ann Thwaite, English author}

4 October 1933

Born on the same birth date (4 October 1933): German Moreno

Born on the same birth day (4 October): Abraham Benrubi • Alberto Vilar • Alicia Silverstone • Caner Erkin • Chansi Stuckey • Charlton Heston • Florence Eliza Allen • Gail Gilmore • Gil Moore • Joe Boever • John Ellis (executioner) • Karl W. Richter • Kurt Wüthrich • Kyle Lohse • Leroy Van Dyke • Mary Celine Fasenmyer • Prudente de Morais • Péter Pázmány • Rishabh Pant • Robert Wilson (director) • Thorsten Wiedemann • Vitaly Ginzburg • Álvaro Parente

Born in the same month (October 1933): Anthony Skingsley • Brian Booth • Doug Bailey • Forrest Gregg • Garrincha • Guido Molinari • Helmut Senekowitsch • Irwin M. Jacobs • Jay Sebring • Martti Mansikka • Melvin Sokolsky • Michael Noakes • Paco Gento • Peter Mansfield • Raynald Fréchette • René Brodmann • Ryō Hanmura • The Singing Nun • Tom Bingham, Baron Bingham of Cornhill