English writer Julian Bell was BOTD in 1908. Born in London, he was the eldest son of art dealer Clive Bell and painter Vanessa Stephen. He grew up in the Bohemian chaos of Charleston House in Sussex with his brother Quentin, half-sister Angelica, his mother’s lover Duncan Grant and his aunt Virginia Woolf. He was educated at Cambridge University, where he joined gay-adjacent discussion group the Apostles. He lost his virginity to fellow student (and future spy) Anthony Blunt, writing to his mother immediately: “My great news is about Ant[h]ony. I feel certain you won’t be upset or shaked at my telling you that we sleep together.” He published his first poetry collection, Winter Movement in 1930, and edited We Did Not Fight, an anthology of memoirs of conscientious objectors from World War One. He relocated to China in 1935, working as a teacher at Wuhan University, where he had an affair with Ling Shuhua, the wife of one of his colleagues. His second poetry collection, Work for the Winter, appeared in 1936. Despite the objections of his family, he enlisted in the Spanish Civil War, working as an ambulance driver for the British Medical Unit. He was killed in a bomb attack in 1937, aged 29. His collected essays, poems and letters were published posthumously. His literary reputation has been largely eclipsed by the creative output and sexual scandals of his more famous relatives.