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Kwaidan by Lafcadio Hearn5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() However, the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library holds the finest Hearn collection ever assembled, including nearly 300 letters, 25 groups of manuscripts, more than 30 notebooks, and innumerable periodical appearances and translations, all donated by avid book collector Clifton Waller Barrett as part of a comprehensive collection of American literature. Hearn is far less recognized in the United States, where he is primarily remembered for “Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things,” a curious combination of ghost stories and insect studies. ![]() In Japan, Hearn is famous for his ghost tales and other stories of Japanese culture. In 1887 he spent two years in Martinique as a correspondent for Harper’s Weekly before moving to Japan, where he spent the rest of his life, marrying a Japanese woman, Koizumi Setsu, and becoming a Japanese citizen. Born in 1850 in Greece to a Greek mother and Irish father, he spent his childhood in Dublin and was schooled in France and England before coming to the United States at the age of 19. ![]() Writer Lafcadio Hearn was a citizen of the world. Download a full PDF of this year’s Annual Report to read more! Through January, we’re publishing year-in-review highlights from FY2020. ![]()
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