Can you name the author, based on clues about their lives (and some style)?

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This chelloveck had a horrorshow time with his droogs at St. Edmund's Elementary School.
Although his date of birth is still unknown/In April we do note his great renown
It is universally acknowledged that she almost died of typhus at eight years old.
He was born in Union County, not Yoknapatawpha.
Things fell apart for this author when he got a second-class university degree.
She learned to Use--Dashes and Slant Rhyme--at Mount Holyoke--Family--Seminary
He had two sisters, so he never had the experience of having a big brother.
He behaved badly at Magdalen College, not understanding the importance of earnestness.
He didn't find no humor in his brother's 1858 death while he was a-workin' on the river.
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He called the cigarettes that he smoked, 'a classy way to commit suicide.' So it goes.
Just like all happy families, his wife Sophia proof-read his novels.
God, he hated that phony girl Oona O'Neill when he was dating her.
He received an operation to correct an eye condition, but it didn't help him with the fatwa problem.
When drawing a portrait of this artist as a young man, we should remember he was afraid of dogs and thunderstorms.
Like one of his characters, he had epilepsy; unlike that character, he was the second-oldest, not fourth-oldest brother.
He was born in Chicago. He liked to fish. And drink beer.
The first time he saw Shirley Held, he fell madly in love with her.
Working at Blacking Warehouse was among his worst of times as a child.
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