Miguel de Cervantes

"Joseph Conrad, Herman Melville, Miguel de Cervantes, Mark Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson, Jack London--all served in navies, worked in shipping, or sailed around the world, all turned their experiences of adventure on the high seas into great literature."

"Remember, *Don Quixote* almost singlehandedly ended the cultural plague that was the chivalric romance. When will an American Cervantes save us from superheroes?"