Quote of the day
Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil, is rightwise King born of all England.
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)






