Trocchi, Alex

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Name
Trocchi, Alex Gender: M
Alexander Whitelaw Robertson Trocchi
born on 30 July 1925 at 02:45 (= 02:45 AM )
Place Glasgow, Scotland, 55n53, 4w15
Timezone GDT h1e (is daylight saving time)
Data source
Quoted BC/BR
Rodden Rating AA
Collector: Wright
Astrology data s_su.18.gif s_leocol.18.gif 06°22' s_mo.18.gif s_scocol.18.gif 21°47 Asc.s_cancol.18.gif 07°47'



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Alex Trocchi
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Biography

Avant-garde Scottish novelist, poet and biographer. He was a life-long heroin addict. In the early 1950s he lived in Paris and edited the literary magazine Merlin. He also worked in the United States where he hell foul of the law as a result of his addiction. Friends enabled him to escape to Canada and he eventually made his way back to London where he remained until his death in 1984.

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Source Notes

Paul Wright quotes birth record

Categories

  • Diagnoses : Psychological : Abuse Drugs (Heroin Addict)
  • Vocation : Writers : Biographer
  • Vocation : Writers : Fiction
  • Vocation : Writers : Poet
  • Vocation : Writers : Publisher/ Editor