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Vita Sackville-West was born on March 9, 1892, in Knole, Kent, England.
* She was the only child of cousins Victoria Sackville-West and Lionel Sackville-West, 3rd Baron Sackville.
* She was a successful novelist, poet, and journalist.
* She was twice awarded the Hawthornden Prize for Imaginative Literature.
* She was the inspiration for the protagonist of Orlando: A Biography, by her friend and lover Virginia Woolf.
* She married Harold Nicolson in 1913 and they had two sons.
* They lived at Sissinghurst Castle, which they turned into a famous garden.
* She died on June 2, 1962, at Sissinghurst Castle.
* She is remembered as one of the most important writers of her generation.