Ocupation: Paleontologist
Life: September 10, 1941 - May 20, 2002
Birthday: September 10
Death: May 20
Most books, after all, are ephemeral; their specifics, several years later, inspire about as much interest as daily battle reports from the Hundred Years' War.
source: "An Urchin in the Storm: Essays About Books and Ideas". Book by Stephen Jay Gould. Preface, p. 10, 1987.
topic: War, Book, Years, Specifics