Complex sentence: Thus this wonderful writer who was by what i understood hardly 18 at the time he wrote these articles is far by large one of the most powerful and one of the best article writers of today and large the best.
Split into simpler sentences: Thus this wonderful writer who by what i understood was hardly 18 at the time he wrote these articles. He is by large one of the most powerful and one of the best article writers of today and truly the best.