Robert Herrick

Novelist (1868-1938).

Born April 21st, 1868 in Cambridge.

Died December 23rd, 1938 at 70 years old in Charlotte Amalie.

Occupations
novelist, university teacher, writer

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