Quote of the day
The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.
Edgar Saltus

Born: October 8, 1855
Died: July 31, 1921  (aged 65)
Bio: Edgar Evertson Saltus was an American writer known for his highly refined prose style. His works paralleled those by European decadent authors such as Joris-Karl Huysmans and Oscar Wilde.
Known for:
- The philosophy of disenchantment (1885)
 - Anatomy of Negation (1886)
 - HISTORIA AMORIS (1906)
 - The Paliser Case (1919)
 - Lords of the Ghostland (1907)
 






