Quote of the day
Good authors, too, who once knew better words
Now only use four-letter words
Writing prose —
Anything goes.
A. B. Guthrie Jr.
Born: January 13, 1901
Died: April 26, 1991 (aged 90)
Bio: Alfred Bertram Guthrie Jr. was an American novelist, screenwriter, historian, and literary historian who won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1950 for his novel The Way West.
Known for:
- The Big Sky (1947)
- The Way West (1949)
- Fair Land, Fair Land (1982)
- Murders at Moon Dance (1943)
- The Blue Hen's Chick: An Autobiography (1965)