Quote of the day
I wish my deadly foe, no worse
Than want of friends, and empty purse.
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