Quote of the day
Maybe you are the cool generation … If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration.
Frederick Crews
Born: February 20, 1933
Died: June 21, 2024 (aged 91)
Bio: Frederick Campbell Crews was an American essayist and literary critic. Professor emeritus of English at the University of California, Berkeley, Crews is the author of numerous books, including The Tragedy of Manners: Moral Drama in the Later Novels of Henry James and E. M. Forster: The Perils of Humanism (1962).
Known for:
- Pooh Perplex (1963)
- Postmodern Pooh (2001)
- The Memory Wars (1995)
- Follies of the Wise (2006)
- Skeptical Engagements (1986)