Claude Bowers Professions : Writer Born : November 20, 1878 Died : January 21, 1958 Browse All Authors Famous Quotes by Claude Bowers History is the torch that is meant to illuminate the past, to guard us against the repetition of our mistakes of other days. We cannot join in the rewriting of history to make it conform to our comfort and convenience. Claude Bowers mistake writing past Similar Authors Ihab Hassan writer Ingmar Bergman writer Isabella Bird writer Ivan E. Coyote writer Al Feldstein writer Bert Sugar writer All Authors