Dec 23, 2009

Travesties | Author Biography

Tom Stoppard was bom Tomas Straussler on July 3, 1937, in Zlin, in the former Czechoslovakia, to Eugene Straussler (a physician) and Martha (Stoppard). The family moved to Singapore in 1939, but soon after, before the Japanese invasion, Stoppard, his brother, and his mother fled to India. The Japanese in Singapore killed his father in 1941. After his mother married Kenneth Stoppard. a British officer, the family relocated to England. At seventeen, Stoppard left school to become a journalist and, soon after, a playwright. He wrote for various British newspapers until 1963, when he devoted...