Alfred Duhrssen, born in the U.S.A. He lived most of his adult life in Europe. He held degrees in Philosophy from the University of Chicago, where he taught, and from the Sorbonne in Paris. As a combat engineer during World War II, he learned that war and love were not that far apart.
He divided his living and writing time between London, Barcelona and Deia, Mallorca. He wrote two books, Memoir of an Aged Child and Difficult Women.
He died in May 2005.
Peripatetic writer who escaped Austria as a child, hid in Holland in the war and described his experiences in a series of books.
Robert Graves was an English poet, novelist, critic, classicist and student of Celtic, Greek and Hebrew mythology.
A painter from Australia. Studied painting with Frank Hodgkinson, another Deia alumni. Moved to Deia in 1977 and married Juan Graves, son of Robert. She has returned to Australia now and continues to make art and music.
Born in Panama of Jamaican parents, he went to school in Kingston before going to Oxford, N.C., where he lived until he was drafted into the Army in 1943. A master sergeant
Oona speaks English, Castellano & Catalan (and some French as well).
