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Frank Percy Doel (14 July 1908 – 22 December 1968) was an antiquarian bookseller for Marks & Co in London, England who achieved posthumous fame as the recipient of a series of humorous letters from American author Helene Hanff, to which he scrupulously and, at first, very formally replied. The shop where he worked was at 84 Charing Cross Road, the title of a bestselling novel written by Hanff which became a cult classic, a stage play, and a film, in which Doel was played by Anthony Hopkins and Hanff by Anne Bancroft. ==Early life== He was born in Wallasey, Cheshire, and moved from there to Harringay, London, when he was eight years old. From 1919 to 1924, Doel was educated at Hornsey County Grammar School, a co-educational school also attended by his elder brother. On leaving school, Doel started his first, and only, job with Marks & Co, an antiquarian bookshop, located at 84 Charing Cross Road, London. Always known as "young Frank",〔(Fan web-site )〕 he learnt the trade from his employers Ben Marks and Mark Cohen. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Frank Doel」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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