One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers.

The House that George Built with a little help from Irving Cole and a Crew of about Fifty. 1966. Further reading
Frank Sheed (1974) The Church and I Garden City NY: Doubleday.

Wilfrid Sheed spent his childhood in both England and the United States before attending Downside School and Lincoln College Oxford where he earned BA (1954) and MA (1957) degrees. It goes catapulting along digressing like mad never pedantic a little frantic which is just right: the jazz song like all true art is a flight from depression indifference the cold blank stare the earnest clammy touch. His biography Frank and Maisie was about his parents' literary establishment and intellectual world.