Thackeray, William Makepeace. Novelist. Born in Calcutta in 1811. Thackeray was educated at the charterhouse and Cambridge. Studied art in Paris, but determined to devote himself to literature and, in 1837, became connected with "Fraser's Magazine," to which he contributed the "Great Hogarty Diamond." In 1840, he published the "Paris Sketch-book," and, in 1842, began to write for "Punch," in which appeared his "Book of Snobs." His first great novel, "Vanity Fair," as followed by "Pendennis," "Esmond," "The Newcomes," and others. He delivered a series of lectures in England and America on the "English Humorists of the Eighteenth Century," and "The Four Georges," and edited the "Cornhill Magazine." Died 1863.

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