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In 1946, Jewish playwright Tom Stoppard (b. 1938) landed in England after having fled Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia and spending years as a refugee in Singapore and India. With an English stepfather and a Czech mother determined to make her children 100 percent English, Stoppard started out as a reporter for a newspaper in Bristol, moved to writing columns and freelancing, and burst onto the arts scene with the comedy Rosenkrantz and Gildenstern Are Dead (1966), about two throwaway...Log In or Sign Up to Read More