Quote of the day
There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot.
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)