3 Quotes & Sayings By John Shearman

John is an award-winning author of more than 30 titles, many of which have also been reprinted in foreign countries. He is the author of the acclaimed biography of Agatha Christie, Dear Miss Marple: The Unfinished Autobiography of Agatha Christie, and has written biographies of Edgar Allan Poe, Sherlock Holmes creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and Ernest Hemingway. In addition to his fiction work, John has written the memoirs The Lost Years: An Autobiography and The White Orchid: A Memoir. John was born in London in 1938 and now lives in Kent with his wife, Pat.

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Changing prejudice often inverts the value of words while preserving most of their sense; virtues are turned into vices, artistic qualities become defects. John Shearman
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The modern tendency towards increasing specialization in all branches of research and scholarship has discouraged comparative studies of the arts; and what we seldom do we generally distrust. But our distrust of analogies was not shared by the sixteenth century, which inherited from antiquity a habit of drawing parallels as a matter of course. John Shearman