American writer and director.
Born January 28th, 1952 in Flushing.
Died March 10th, 2015 at 63 years old in Los Angeles (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis).
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