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About Harold Acton
Sir Harold Mario Mitchell Acton was a British writer, scholar, and aesthete who was a prominent member of the Bright Young Things. He wrote fiction, biography, history and autobiography. During his stay in China, he studied the Chinese language, traditional drama, and poetry, some of which he translated.
Everything about Harold Acton →- Occupation
- writer, historian, art collector, translator
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- July 5, 1904
- Died
- February 27, 1994