Quote of the day
Good authors, too, who once knew better words
Now only use four-letter words
Writing prose —
Anything goes.
Alfred Sutro
Born: August 7, 1863
Died: 1933 (aged 69)
Bio: Alfred Sutro was an English author, dramatist and translator. In addition to a succession of successful plays of his own in the first quarter of the 20th century, Sutro made the first English translations of works by the Belgian writer Maurice Maeterlinck.
Known for:
- Five Little Plays (1912)
- The Children's Life of the Bee (1919)
- The two virtues (1913)
- The Cave of Illusion (1900)
- The Laughing Lady: A Comedy in Three Acts (1922)