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Description: Orlando Figes, writer
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Orlando Figes was born in London on November 20, 1959. Orlando Figes is one of three writers in the Figes family. His mother Eva Figes and his sister Kate Figes are both writers too.
Eva Figes is the author of thirteen novels and several works of non-fiction, including Patriarchal Attitudes, a seminal feminist work of the early 1970s. Orlando Figes was brought up in Hampstead, north London, in a feminist environment. It was a single-parent family, his father, John Figes, having left the family when Orlando was just three.
Orlando Figes went to William Ellis School in north London. It was a grammar school when he started there, though it became a comprehensive when he was in the sixth form. At William Ellis Orlando Figes was in the year below the notable historians Mark Mazower and Toby Abse.
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