Michael Ross
Author and Bibliophile
I hope you are readers of literary fiction who share my enthusiasm for the value of well-turned phrases and pithy observations about life and its myriad features. In any case, I want to share my background so you have a sense of how I became the author of the Discoveries series.
Michael Ross was encouraged to read at a young age by observing his parents who were avid readers. He majored in English in college at the University of Virginia (UVA), graduating with distinction in 1970. His extensive reading began at sea in the Navy (1970-74) and continued during law school at UVA (1974-77) and his careers practicing corporate law and teaching practical seminars at the UVA and Berkeley schools of law, the Peking School of Transnational Law, Dubrovnik International University and the IE Law School in Madrid (2000-2016). He is the author of Ethics & Integrity in Law & Business – Avoiding “Club Fed,” published in 2011.
He and his wife, Virginia, live in Orinda, CA and have a son, Charlie, and a daughter, Margaret.
Midwest Book Review
“Truly exceptional and simply stated, Ross’s Timely Discoveries is a bibliophile’s treasure that is unreservedly and enthusiastically recommended for personal reading lists, as well as community, and academic library Literary Studies collection.”
San Francisco Book Review
“The book’s design is unique; it resembles an old-fashioned hardback classic in pocket-book size with a valentine red binding. The script on the black and white pages is elegantly lettered, and these are interspersed with skillful illustrations of some of the included authors by Cara Lowe.”
Seattle Book Review
“Reading Michael Ross’s collection of quotes along with his comments feels like peeking into another’s diary and finding a relationship with the enclosed contents. Just as elusive time flies from us, so do we adapt to different identities at varied ages. An interesting collection of timely thoughts.”
Discover New Literary Quotes
Browse The Collection“And I would discover how much of life is defined by what you want to keep and what you are forced to lose.”
– Christina Henriquiez “The Wide, Pale Ocean” in Come Together, Fall Apart
“I tried to tell her how if you could not accept the past and its burden there was no future, for without one there cannot be the other, and how if you could accept the past you might hope for the future, for only out of the past can you make the future.”
– Robert Penn Warren All the King's Men