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23 August 1999: The popular view of the author as glamorous could not be further from the truth.
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Alain de Botton
Alain de Botton is a philosopher and author, whose work includes Essays in Love (1993) and The Architecture of Happiness (2006). He is the co-founder of the School of Life and Living Architecture.
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