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Leon Edel

Leon Edel




Full Name: Joseph Leon Edel

Birthdate: September 9, 1907
Birthplace: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Date of Death: September 5, 1997

Occupation: Biographer and Literary Critic
Profile: Best known for his five-volume biography of Henry James.

Website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Leon_Edel
Number of Quotes: 1




The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.

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