![]() ![]() Before he was seventeen, his aunt became bankrupt and could no longer pay for tuition or his case, so he was sent to live with his aunt’s former maid.Īt 19, Hearn was sent to America to work, despite the financial improvement of his family. When he was 16, he badly injured his left eye and suffered from myopia that left him with very poor vision. He was sent to have a Catholic education in France. ![]() ![]() His mother returned to Greece and his father signed over custody to the aunt by the time he was seven. When his parents’ marriage fell apart, Hearn was left in the care of an aunt. At a young age, he was sent with his mother to Dublin to live with his father’s family while his father was stationed in the British West Indes as part of the military. He was moved, sent, and abandoned several times during his childhood. Hearn was born in Greece to a Greek mother and an Irish father. He is best known for his records of Japanese ghost stories, which were widely published at the turn of the 20th century. Koizumi Yakumo, born Patrick Lafcadio Hearn and published under the name Lafcadio Hearn, was a Japanese writer of Greek and Irish descent. ![]()
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