Quote of the day
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Alasdair Gray
Born: December 28, 1934
Died: December 29, 2019 (aged 85)
Bio: Alasdair Gray was a Scottish writer and artist. His most acclaimed work is his first novel, Lanark, published in 1981 and written over a period of almost 30 years.
Known for:
- Lanark: A Life in Four Books (1981)
- Poor Things (1992)
- 1982, Janine (1984)
- The Book of Prefaces
- Unlikely stories, mostly (1951)