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Portrait of Giles Blunt Photo: Peter Peitsch (2006) / www.peitschphoto.com

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Blunt, Giles

Giles Blunt is a Canadian author, born in North Bay, Ontario, to English parents. He attended Scollard Hall, a Catholic primary school, and Algonquin Composite after which he read English literature at the University of Toronto, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in 1975. He also wrote poetry in his spare time; some of his poems were published in Canadian magazines, which led to a job as a film...

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Portrait image of Algernon Blackwood Photo: Hulton Deutsch/Corbis Historical via Getty Images (1949)

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Blackwood, Algernon

British writer Algernon Blackwood was born in the South East London district of Shooter’s Hill. In 1871 his family relocated to nearby Crayford. Both parents were stout Calvinists. In his teens, Blackwood broke away from their faith and embraced Buddhist teachings, thus forming a life-long penchant for oriental mysticism, occultism and theosophy. He studied at Wellington College in Berkshire a...

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