Tom Stoppard, Playwright and Screenwriter Behind Brazil and Shakespeare in Love, Dies at 88

British playwright and screenwriter Tom Stoppard, born in Czechoslovakia, died on Saturday, 29 November, at the age of 88.

Born on 15 March 1939, he fled Nazi persecution with his family at the age of two. After several years in Singapore and India during the war, the family settled in the United Kingdom, where Stoppard …