Laurence Sterne 1713-1768 was born in Ireland and brought up in Yorkshire, becoming a country parson. Sadly his marriage failed - chiefly his fault, it would seem. In 1759, for some reason he began what became the comic novel The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy. A local success at first, word spread. He added volumes for the rest of his life. From 1762 he lived mainly abroad for health reasons, dying in London of tubercolosis.
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