In this elegant but pocketable edition, passionate bibliophile Michael Ross has curated 106 favorite literary quotes from the collection of over 1500 well-read books on his shelves—but this isn't your typical rehashing of Bartlett's quotations. Michael Ross brings together quotes from such a new perspective even the authors themselves will probably find this book useful and insightful.
Authors quoted include Tom Robbins, John Gardner, A.A. Milne, Anne Tyler, Bernard Malamud, Elizabeth Goudge, John O'Hara, Jim Harrison, Vladimir Nabokov, Ivan Doig, Richard Russo, Graham Swift, John Casey, George Garrett, Martin Davies, Cormac McCarthy, Willa Cather, Richard Brautigan, Colin Wilson, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gore Vidal, Leon Uris, Walker Percy, V.S. Naipaul, Thornton Wilder, John Updike, Anthony Burgess, Paul Auster, Richard Powers, Richard Russo, William Martin, Robert Penn Warren, John Gardner, Aldous Huxley, John Hersey, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Antoine Laurain, Dave Eggers, Honore de Balzac, John Cheever, Oscar Wilde, Edward Abbey, Garrison Keillor, Lorrie Moore, Doris Lessing, Elia Kazan, Tom Wolfe, Sinclair Lewis, William Kotzwinkle, Eric Ambler, Thomas McGuane, Graham Greene, W. Somerset Maugham, Ethan Canin, Milan Kundera, and Hunter S. Thompson.
Also included are original illustrations by Cara Lowe of Hunter S. Thompson, Willa Cather, John O'Hara, Thomas McGuane, Eric Ambler, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Honore de Balzac, Dave Eggers, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Anthony Burgess, John Updike, Richard Brautigan, Cormac McCarthy, Richard Russo, Elizabeth Goudge, and Anne Tyler.
About the Author
Michael Ross was encouraged to read by observing his parents who were avid readers. He majored in English in college at the University of Virginia (UVA), graduating with distinction in 1970. His extensive reading began at sea in the Navy (1970-74) and continued during law school at UVA (1974-77) and his subsequent careers practicing corporate law, specializing in mergers and acquisitions, at Latham & Watkins (1977-93), serving as Senior Vice President & General Counsel at Safeway Inc. (1993-2000) and teaching practical seminars at the UVA and Berkeley schools of law, the Peking School of International Law, Dubrovnik International University and the IE Law School in Madrid. He is the author (as Michael C. Ross) of Ethics& Integrity in Law & Business –Avoiding “Club Fed,” published in 2011.
He is a former member of the Board of Trustees of the California Shakespeare Theater, the Advisory Council of the UVA Institute for Practical Ethics and Public Life and the Berkeley Center for Law & Business. He is also a former elder at the Lafayette-Orinda Presbyterian Church. He is a life member of the Friends of the Orinda Library.
He and his wife, Virginia, live in Orinda, CA and have a son, Charlie, and a daughter, Margaret.
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