Lafcadio Hearn

Patrick Lafcadio Hearn , known also by the Japanese name Koizumi Yakumo , was an international writer, known best for his books about Japan, especially his collections of Japanese legends and ghost stories, such as Kwaidan Stories and Studies of Strange Things. In the United States, Hearn is also known for his writings about the city of New Orleans based on his tenyear stay in that city.

Hearn was born in and named for the island of Lefkada, one of the Greek Ionian Islands, onJune 1850.p.He was the son of SurgeonMajor Charles Bush Hearn and Rosa Antoniou Kassimatis, a Greek woman of noble Kytheran lineage through her father, Anthony Kassimatis. His father was stationed in Lefkada during the British occupation of the islands, where he was the highestranking surgeon in his regiment. Lafcadio was baptized Patricios Lefcadios Hearn in the Greek Orthodox Church, but he seems to have been called Patrick Lefcadio Kassimati Charles Hearn in English. Hearns parents were married in a Greek Orthodox ceremony onNovember 1849, several months after his mother had given birth to the couples first child and Hearns older brother, George Robert Hearn, onJuly 1849. George Hearn died onAugust 1850, two months after Lafcadios birth. p. 11

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