Quote of the day
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
Agnes Sligh Turnbull

Born: October 14, 1888
Died: January 31, 1982 (aged 93)
Bio: Agnes Sligh Turnbull was a bestselling American writer, most noted for her works of historical fiction based in her native Western Pennsylvania.
Known for:
- The Gown of Glory (1952)
- The Day Must Dawn (1942)
- The King's Orchard (1963)
- The Rolling Years (1936)
- The Bishop's Mantle (1948)