Thomas Hardy
Dorchester, इंग्लैण्ड, यूनाइटेड किंगडम के स्थानीय लेखक
Thomas Hardy (1840–1928), a stonemason's son from near Dorchester, trained as an architect before turning to novels set in his half-imagined Wessex. After the outcry over Jude the Obscure he wrote only poetry for his last thirty years.