LOUIS ADAMIČ, Slovene-American author and translator, mostly known for writing about ethnic diversity of America.
By ErasmusSp3
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He was born in Praproče in what is now Slovenia (in that time it was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire)
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At the age of 15, he emigrated to the United States.
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He became a naturalized United States citizen in 1918 as Louis Adamic. He worked as a manual laborer and later at a Yugoslavian daily newspaper that was published in New York. As an American soldier he participated in combat on the Western front during the First World War. After the war he worked as a journalist and professional writer
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He died in Milford, US.