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There are no countries in the world less known by the British than these selfsame British Islands, or where more strange things are every day occurring.
Silas House

Born: 1971 (age 54)
Bio: Silas Dwane House is an American writer best known for his novels. He is also a music journalist, environmental activist and columnist. House's fiction is known for its attention to the natural world, working class characters, and the plight of the rural place and rural people.
Known for:
- Clay's Quilt (2001)
- A parchment of leaves (2001)
- Same Sun Here (2011)
- The coal tattoo (2004)