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Siegfried Sassoon
English war poet and writer (1886-1967)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 8 September 1886
- Died
- 1 September 1967
- Conflict
- World War I
- Place of birth
- Matfield
- Place of death
- Heytesbury
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Siegfried
- Family name
- Sassoon
- Father
- Alfred Ezra Sassoon
- Mother
- Theresa Thornycroft
- Spouse
- Hester Gatty, Stephen Tennant
- Child
- George Sassoon
- Sibling
- Hamo Watts Sassoon
- Genre
- daily newspaper
- Occupation
- reporter, writer, military personnel, poet
- Religion
- Catholicism, Judaism
- Awards
- Military Cross, Commander of the Order of the British Empire, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, King’s / Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry, Hawthornden Prize
- archives at
- University of Leeds Libraries, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Boston University Libraries, Boston College University Libraries, Cambridge University Library, Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Columbia University), Imperial War Museum London, Lilly Library, New York Public Library Main Branch, McMaster University Library, Harry Ransom Center
- birth name
- Siegfried Loraine Sassoon
- family
- Sassoon family
- influenced by
- Thomas Hardy, E. M. Forster, Robert Graves, Henry Vaughan, William Halse Rivers Rivers, Henry Head, Edmund Gosse
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English
- military branch
- British Army
- military, police or special rank
- captain
- notable work
- Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man
- place of burial
- Somerset
- residence
- Matfield
- sexual orientation
- homosexuality
- unmarried partner
- Stephen Tennant
- writing language
- English
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