Joseph Conrad

Full Name: Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski
Profession: Novelist

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Biography: Regarded as one of the greatest novelists in English, though he did not speak the language fluently until he was in his twenties (and always with a marked accent).

Conrad wrote stories and novels, often with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of an indifferent universe.

He was a master prose stylist who brought a distinctly non-English tragic sensibility into English literature.

Born: December 3, 1857
Birthplace: Berdychiv, Poland
Star Sign: Sagittarius

Died: August 3, 1924 (aged 66)
Cause of Death: Heart attack