Quote of the day
If you do not accuse each other, God will not accuse you. If you have no accuser you will enter heaven. . . . What many people call sin is not sin; I do many things to break down superstition, and I will break it down.
Leon Edel

Born: September 9, 1907
Died: September 5, 1997 (aged 89)
Bio: Joseph Leon Edel was a North American literary critic and biographer. He was the elder brother of North American philosopher Abraham Edel.
Known for:
- Henry James: A Life (1962)
- Writing Lives: Principia Biographica (1984)
- Henry James (1931)
- A bibliography of Henry James (1957)
- The visitable past