In her review, "Hitchens still defending the indefensible" (The Argus, May 27), Bella Todd incorrectly describes Thomas Paine as "Lewes-born author of The Rights Of Man" for, while Paine lived for a time in Lewes, he was born in Thetford, Norfolk.
In addition to The Rights Of Man, Thomas Paine also wrote the influential The Age Of Reason and Common Sense. He was one of the great thinkers of his time and provided ammunition for generations of free-thinkers, secularists and non-conformists.
-WJ McIlroy, Somerhill Road, Hov
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