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Iris Origo
AuthorBooks · Second hand1902-1988
Dame Iris Margaret Origo, DBE was an English-born biographer and writer. She lived in Italy and devoted much of her life to improving the Tuscan estate at La Foce, near Montepulciano, which she bought with her husband in the 1920s.
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About Iris Origo
Birth
1902
Death
1988
Dame Iris Margaret Origo, DBE was an English-born biographer and writer. She lived in Italy and devoted much of her life to improving the Tuscan estate at La Foce, near Montepulciano, which she bought with her husband in the 1920s.
Iris Origo was a versatile British writer who excelled in both biography and historical chronicles.
Her most iconic work, War in Val D'Orcia, offers an unforgettable personal account of the Second World War in Italy.
Beyond literature, she dedicated much of her life to farming, managing lands in the Italian countryside.
Throughout her prolific career, she published a total of 35 works exploring history and the human experience.
Born in Gloucestershire, her life was defined by a multicultural identity, holding Irish and American citizenship as well.
