William Makepeace Thackeray was born in Calcutta, India, two hundred and fifteen years ago, the son of an English colonial official. He was sent back to England as a child and educated at English public schools and Trinity College, Cambridge.
After an unsteady start as a journalist, he settled down to a long and successful career as a novelist. The best-known of his works is Vanity Fair, published in serial form in 1847–48. Consistently ranked as one of the best novels written in English, it is a funny but unsparing satirical take on the English ruling class—known then simply as “the gentry.”
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