Vita Sackville-West, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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English writer and gardener
Date of Birth: 09-Mar-1892
Place of Birth: Knole House, England, United Kingdom
Date of Death: 02-Jun-1962
Profession: writer, poet, gardener, biographer, horticulturist
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About Vita Sackville-West
- Victoria Mary Sackville-West, Lady Nicolson, CH (9 March 1892 – 2 June 1962), usually known as Vita Sackville-West, was an English poet, novelist, and garden designer. She was a successful novelist, poet, and journalist, as well as a prolific letter writer and diarist.
- She published more than a dozen collections of poetry during her lifetime and 13 novels.
- She was twice awarded the Hawthornden Prize for Imaginative Literature: in 1927 for her pastoral epic, The Land, and in 1933 for her Collected Poems.
- She was the inspiration for the androgynous protagonist of Orlando: A Biography, by her famous friend and lover, Virginia Woolf. She had a longstanding column in The Observer (1946–1961) and is remembered for the celebrated garden at Sissinghurst created with her husband, Sir Harold Nicolson.
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