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Philippa Pearce
English children's writer.
Born January 22nd, 1920 in Cambridgeshire, Great Shelford.
Died December 21st, 2006 at 86 years old in Durham (stroke). [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