“There are but two biographers who can tell the story of a man’s or a…” — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

“There are but two biographers who can tell the story of a man’s or a woman’s life. One is the person himself or herself; the other is the Recording Angel.”

Distinguishing between the necessarily incomplete human account and divine knowledge · Remark on biography

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

About Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

29 August 1809–7 October 1894

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., born 29 August 1809 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and dead 7 October 1894 in Boston, was one of the most recognizably versatile figures in nineteenth-century American culture: physician, medical reformer, anatomist, professor, poet, novelist, essayist, conversational satirist, and public…

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