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Laurence Sterne
Novelist Laurence Sterne, detail of an oil painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1760; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Laurence Sterne was born on November 24, 1713, in Clonmel, County Tipperary, Ireland.1