Gladys Bronwyn Stern
Overview
 
Gladys Bronwyn Stern or GB Stern (17 June 1890 – 20 September 1973) born Gladys Bertha Stern in London
London
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, England
England
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, wrote many novels, short stories, plays, memoirs, biographies and literary criticism.

She wrote her first novel at the age of 20, and then continued to write a novel every year. Her "Rakonitz" novels, e.g. The Rakonitz Chronicles (1932), were based on her cosmopolitan, non-practicing Jewish family.
Quotations

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute.

Man is a complex being who makes deserts bloom and lakes die.

One thing that's good about procrastination is that you always have something planned for tomorrow.

 
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