“We are human from the start. We do not need to see a man die to know death. Death is born with our birth.”
About William Ellery Leonard
25 January 1876–2 May 1944
On January 25, 1876, in the quiet town of Plainfield, New Jersey, William Ellery Channing Leonard was born into a world of literary aspiration and transcendentalist idealism. His parents, fervent admirers of the New England intellectual tradition, named their only child after William Ellery Channing, the Unitarian…