Quote of the day
Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it... Advanced art today is no longer a cause – it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out.
Agnes Smedley
Born: February 23, 1892
Died: May 6, 1950 (aged 58)
Bio: Agnes Smedley was an American journalist and writer, well known for her semi-autobiographical novel Daughter of Earth as well as for her sympathetic chronicling of the Communist forces in the Chinese Civil War.
Known for:
- Daughter of Earth (1929)
- China's Red Army Marches (1934)
- China Fights Back (1938)
- Portraits of Chinese women in revolution
- The great road