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William Makepeace Thackeray

William Makepeace Thackeray was a British writer; Anne Frank read his books.

William Makepeace Thackeray was an English novelist. He came to fame as a writer through the publication of Vanity Fair.[1] While in the Secret Annex, Anne Frank read his The History of Henry Esmond.[2] 

Footnotes

  1. ^ Wikipedia: William Makepeace Thackeray.
  2. ^ Anne Frank, Diary Version A, 27 April 1944, in: The Collected Works, transl. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty, London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019.