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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in Portsmouth in 1812, Dickens was pulled from school at twelve when his father landed in debtors' prison; he spent three years in a boot-blacking factory before returning to finish his education. He started as a journalist, then edited a weekly journal for two decades while writing fifteen novels, five novellas, and hundreds of stories and articles. The 1836 serial launch of The Pickwick Papers—supercharged by the character Sam Weller in episode four—made him an international celebrity almost overnight. He pioneered serialised narrative fiction, the dominant Victorian publishing mode, holding readers in suspense with cliffhanger endings and tweaking his plots mid-run when audiences reacted; the illiterate poor paid a halfpenny per episode to hear them read aloud. His 1843 A Christmas Carol became a permanent fixture of the culture; Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, Bleak House, and A Tale of Two Cities followed, the latter his best-known historical fiction. He spent his final years on gruelling public reading tours and died in 1870, the most famous writer of his era.