Writer besides being a columnist, is also an architecture critic and author of books. Writers who record their experiences, thoughts or feelings in a sequential form over a period of time in a diary are known as diarists. Their writings can provide valuable insights into historical periods, specific events or individual personalities. Examples include Samuel Pepys (1633–1703), an English administrator and Member of Parliament, whose detailed private diary provides eyewitness accounts of events during the 17th century, most notably of the Great Fire of London. Anne Frank (1929–1945) was a 13-year-old girl whose diary from 1942 to 1944 records both her
John and Evelyn Billings Richmond aged care centre, survived by his wife, children and large extended family. Evelyn died on 16 February 2013, aged 95, following a brief illness. John and Evelyn Billings John Billings, (5 March 1918 – 1 April 2007) and his wife Evelyn Livingston Billings, (née Thomas; 8 February 191816 February 2013) were Australian physicians who pioneered the natural method of family planning known initially as the Ovulation Method, then the Ovulation Method Billings, specified by the WHO in 1978 and finally as the Billings Ovulation Method. John Billings was born in Melbourne and was educated at Xavier College, and at