Quote of the day
Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
Hesketh Pearson
Born: February 20, 1887
Died: April 9, 1964 (aged 77)
Bio: Edward Hesketh Gibbons Pearson was a British actor, theatre director and writer. He is known mainly for his popular biographies; they made him the leading British biographer of his time, in terms of commercial success.
Known for:
- The Life of Oscar Wilde (1946)
- A Life of Shakespeare (1942)
- Smith of Smiths (1934)
- Bernard Shaw (1941)
- Gilbert and Sullivan (1935)