Tom Stoppard

About Tom Stoppard

While being born in Czechoslovakia on July 3, 1937, he left as a child refugee, fleeing from imminent Nazi occupation. He settled with his family in Britain after the war in 1946, having spent the previous 3 years in a boarding school in Darjeeling in the Indian Himalayas. After he was educated at schools in Yorkshire and Nottingham, he became a journalist, then a drama critic and finally a playwright in 1960. He started writing short radio plays in 1953 and 1954 and he finished his first play “A Walk on the Water” (later re-titled “Enter a Free Man”). Within just a week of sending the play off to an agent he got his version of the “Hollywood style telegrams which change struggling young artists lives”. Tom has said the play owed much to “Death of A Salesman” by Arthur Miller and “Flowerin