Alain de Botton
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Alain de Botton was born in Zurich, Switzerland and went to the Dragon School in Oxford, Harrow and Cambridge to study history, where he received a double first. He graduated from the University of London with an MA in philosophy and started a PhD program but stopped to focus on writing novels. He started crafting his distinct brand of popular philosophy with "How Proust Can... read full bio