Quote of the day
His own image... was no longer the reflection of a clumsy, dirty, gray bird, ugly and offensive. He himself was a swan! Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
Alec Wilkinson

Born: 1952 (age 74)
Bio: Alec Wilkinson is a writer who has been on the staff of The New Yorker since 1980. According to The Philadelphia Inquirer he is among the "first rank of" contemporary American "literary journalists... of Naipaul, Norman Mailer and Agee.
Known for:
- The Ice Balloon (2011)
- Midnights, a year with the Wellfleet police (1982)
- Moonshine: A Life in Pursuit of White Liquor (1985)






