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Alain de Botton
Roderick Field
Alain de Botton was born in Switzerland in 1969 and moved with his family to England when he was eight years old.

De Botton has written about literature in How Proust Can Change Your Life, relationships in On Love, social hierarchy in Status Anxiety, and going abroad in The Art of Travel.

In his most recent book, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work, de Botton explores the joys and perils of the modern workplace.

De Botton regularly contributes to English newspapers such as The Independent and helps to run the production company Seneca Productions.

He started and helps to run a school in London called The School of Life, which is dedicated to a new vision of education.






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