Quote of the day
There are no countries in the world less known by the British than these selfsame British Islands, or where more strange things are every day occurring.
Alix Kates Shulman

Born: August 17, 1932 (age 93)
Bio: Alix Kates Shulman is an American writer of fiction, memoirs, and essays, as well as one of the early radical activists of second-wave feminism.
Known for:
- Memoirs of an ex-prom queen (1972)
- Drinking the rain (1995)
- To Love What Is (2008)
- A good enough daughter (1999)
- Burning Questions: A Novel (1978)