English author, editor, translator, and theosophist.
Born March 22nd, 1863 in Peckham. [ref]
Died September 28th, 1933 at 70 years old in London. [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