Author
Laurence Sterne
Anglo-Irish novelist and Anglican cleric (1713–1768)
Their life
Laurence Sterne, an Anglo-Irish novelist and Anglican clergyman, lived from 1713 to 1768. He grew up in a military family that moved mostly around Ireland, with only brief stays in England. He studied at Jesus College, Cambridge, on a sizarship, earned his bachelor's and master's degrees there, and was ordained a priest in 1738. While serving as vicar of Sutton-on-the-Forest in Yorkshire, he married Elizabeth Lumley in 1741.
Sterne first tried his hand at political writing, producing propaganda for the Whigs before leaving politics in 1742. In 1759 he published A Political Romance, a satire of the church that caused embarrassment and was ordered burned. That same year he began the first volume of *The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman*, a comic novel that became a great success and eventually ran to nine volumes. Around this time, at the age of 46, he committed himself to humorous writing as his life's work.
Tristram Shandy made Sterne a literary celebrity for the rest of his life. Alongside his novels, which include *A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy* (1768
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