Dutch author.
Born April 22nd, 1914 in Haarlem. [ref]
Died September 22nd, 2002 at 88 years old in Houston. [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