English children's writer.
Born February 13th, 1881 in London. [ref]
Died June 5th, 1965 at 84 years old in Hampstead. [ref]
Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is just a passing shadow of a cloud. Yann Martel