Eden Phillpotts was an English author, poet and dramatist. He was born in Mount Abu, British India, educated in Plymouth, Devon, and worked as an insurance officer for 10 years before studying for the stage and eventually becoming a writer.
He co-wrote several plays with his daughter Adelaide Phillpotts, The Farmer's Wife and Yellow Sands ; she later claimed their relationship was incestuous. Eden is best known as the author of many novels, plays and poems about Dartmoor. His Dartmoor cycle of 18 novels and two volumes of short stories still has many avid readers despite the fact that many titles are out of print.
“The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to sharpen.”
Variant: The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
