Quote of the day
Good authors, too, who once knew better words
Now only use four-letter words
Writing prose —
Anything goes.
Allen Wheelis
Born: 1915
Died: 2006 (aged 91)
Bio: Allen Wheelis was a psychoanalyst and writer who lived in San Francisco, CA. He achieved renown and success with his psychoanalytic practice, which spanned five decades despite the fact that he expressed ambivalence and doubt about the field and his own work in it.
Known for:
- How People Change (1973)
- The illusionless man (1966)
- The Way We Are (2006)
- The way things are (1994)