Quote of the day
Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.
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)