Legendary Santa Barbara resident and author Ashleigh Brilliant has died at the age of 91. Brilliant was born in London, England, on December 9, 1933, attended Hendon County School, lived in Australia, and later moved to the United States. In a 1992 profile, The Wall Street Journal called Brilliant “history’s only full-time, professional published epigrammatist.” His 1979 lawsuit (Brilliant v. W.B. Brilliant met Dorothy Tucker in 1965 while sailing around the world as a teacher on the “floating university.” They married in 1968 and settled in Santa Barbara in 1973. A public memorial for Ashleigh Brilliant has yet to be announced.