 The son of Ion and Aurelia Theodorescu, the future writer hailed from the village of Roești, in Vâlcea County, where he was born on October 26, 1888 (some sources have 1889).A high school student in Craiova, he published poems and philosophical fragments in "Ramuri".Between 1900 and 1910, Theodorescu began contributing to the daily press of Bucharest, using such aliases as "D.T.