Facts about Rebecca West
Rebecca West died at 90 years old
Born: December 21, 1892
Best known as: Critic, journalist, novelist and literary celebrity
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Rebecca West Biography
Name at birth: Cicily Isabel Fairfield
Rebecca West published her first novel in 1918, The Return of the Soldier. She is perhaps best known for her journalistic studies of the Nazi war crimes trials in Nuremberg: The Meaning of Treason (1947) and A Train of Powder (1955). In 1959 West was made a Dame of the British Empire, and in the late 1970s she gained new popularity, thanks largely to the feminist movement.
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West famously had love affairs with movie star Charlie Chaplin, author H.G. Wells and businessman and politician Lord Beaverbrook (William Aitken).