British american-born writer.
Born October 18th, 1865 in Millville. [ref]
Died March 2nd, 1946 at 80 years old in London.
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