Iris Origo, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Iris Origo

British writer

Date of Birth: 15-Aug-1902

Place of Birth: Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 28-Jun-1988

Profession: writer, farmer, historian, biographer, diarist

Nationality: Ireland, United States

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Dame Iris Margaret Origo, Marchesa Origo, DBE (15 August 1902 – 28 June 1988), née Cutting, was an English-born biographer and writer.
She lived in Italy and devoted much of her life to improving the Tuscan estate at La Foce, near Montepulciano, which she bought with her husband in the 1920s.
During the Second World War, she persistently sheltered refugee children and helped many escaped Allied prisoners of war and partisans, in defiance of Italy's fascist regime and Nazi occupation forces.