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): Adam Voges • Barbara Kooyman • Bill Fagerbakke • Charlie Leibrandt • Christoph Waltz • Engelbert Dollfuss • Felicia Farr • Iain Hewitson • Jody Stephens • John E. Mack • Julien Clerc • Lesley Glaister • M. Ward • Maria Sophie of Bavaria • Mary Two-Axe Earley • Santiago (footballer, born 1976) • Steve Olin • Tim Wise • Vicky Krieps • Violeta Parra

Born in the same month (October 1933): Andrew P. O'Rourke • Barrie Chase • Bill Tidy • Brian Booth • Col Campbell • Dave Somerville • Doug Bailey • Harold Dunaway • Kray twins • Maureen Duffy • Ryō Hanmura • The Singing Nun