Monteiro Lobato

Brazilian writer.

Born April 18th, 1882 in Taubaté. [ref]

Died July 4th, 1948 at 66 years old in São Paulo (lung cancer). [ref]

Occupations
children's writer, journalist, linguist, novelist, publisher, translator, writer
Wikipedia

Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forget life, to be at peace. Oscar Wilde