Quote of the day
A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.
John Carey
Born: April 5, 1934
Died: December 11, 2025 (aged 91)
Bio: John Carey was a British literary critic, and post-retirement emeritus Merton Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford. He was known for his anti-elitist views on high culture, as expounded in several books.
Known for:
- The Faber Book of Science
- Thackeray
- Milton Complete Shorter Poems
- Andrew Marvell: a critical anthology
- Here comes Dickens







