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American writer and academic who helped found the library of america.
Born August 4th, 1912 in Chicago. [ref]
Died April 30th, 2016 at 103 years old in Cambridge (pneumonia). [ref]
Death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life’s change agent, it clears out the old to make way for the new. Steve Jobs