Quote of the day
What a singularly deep impression her injustice seems to have made on your heart... Would you not be happier if you tried to forget her severity, together with the passionate emotions it excited? Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.
Simon Winchester

Born: September 28, 1944 (age 81)
Bio: Simon Winchester, is a British author and journalist who resides in Massachusetts, in the United States. Through his career at The Guardian, Winchester covered numerous significant events, including Bloody Sunday and the Watergate Scandal.
Known for:
- The Surgeon of Crowthorne (1998)
- The Pacific (1991)
- Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded (2004)






