F Marion Crawford - A Short Story Collection: Well travelled American author Crawford studied at Cambridge, Rome, Harvard, Heidelberg and others, his travels and knowledge of cultures helped shape his incredible short stories.

Francis Marion Crawford, an only child, was born on 2nd August 1854 at Bagni di Lucca, Italy. He was a nephew to Julia Ward Howe, the American poet and writer of `The Battle Hymn of the Republic'.

Crawford was educated at St Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire and then on to Cambridge University, the University of Heidelberg and the University of Rome.

In 1879 he went to India, to study Sanskrit and then to edit The Indian Herald. In 1881 he returned to America to continue his Sanskrit st...