Robert Graves was a prolific British poet, novelist, translator, and scholar who was born in 1895. He was a recipient of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1934 and is best known for his works No More Ghosts and I, Claudius. He had a net worth of $1.2 million at the time of his death.
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💰 Net worth: $1.2 Million (2024)
About
Prolific British poet, novelist, translator, and scholar whose works include No More Ghosts and
I, Claudius. He was a 1934 recipient of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
Before Fame
He was one of five children born to Amalie von Ranke and South London school inspector Alfred Perceval Graves.
Trivia
He suffered from life-threatening lung problems on three occasions: pneumonia at age seven, a war-time injury to the lung, and Spanish influenza in 1918. He survived all three respiratory afflictions despite his doctors' dire predictions.
Family Life
He had eight children between his two marriages to Nancy Nicholson and Beryl Graves. He also had an affair with poet Siegfried Sassoon.
Associated With
He was shortlisted for the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature, which was ultimately awarded to author John Steinbeck.
