A. E. Waite, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

A. E. Waite

English writer

Date of Birth: 02-Oct-1857

Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, United States

Date of Death: 19-May-1942

Profession: poet, translator, occultist, non-fiction writer

Nationality: United States, United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Arthur Edward Waite (2 October 1857 – 19 May 1942) was an American-born British poet and scholarly mystic who wrote extensively on occult and esoteric matters, and was the co-creator of the Rider-Waite tarot deck.
As his biographer R.
A.
Gilbert described him, "Waite's name has survived because he was the first to attempt a systematic study of the history of western occultism—viewed as a spiritual tradition rather than as aspects of proto-science or as the pathology of religion."