Quote of the day
I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again … the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.
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






