English Victorian novelist and illustrator William Makepeace Thackeray was born in Calcutta, India, on 18 July 1811, and died in 1863.He is best known for his satirical works, particularly Vanity Fair (1847–1848), a panoramic portrait of British society, and The Luck of Barry Lyndon (1844), which was later adapted into a 1975 film by Stanley […]

William Makepeace Thackeray