Robert Graves
Robert Graves was born on July 24, 1895 in Wimbledon, England into a highly-literary and upper-class family. He was educated in the British preparatory school system and first began to write poetry during his days at school. Despite his dislike of his teachers and the other students, Graves excelled in his studies and was eventually awarded a scholarship to St. Johns College of Oxford University in 1914. When World War I began later that year, however, Graves decided to forgo his scholarship...
