Quote of the day
The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.
Allan Gurganus

Born: June 11, 1947 (age 78)
Bio: Allan Gurganus is an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist whose work, which includes Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All and Local Souls, is often influenced by and set in his native North Carolina.
Known for:
- Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All (1989)
- Local Souls (2013)
- Plays Well with Others (1997)
- The Practical Heart: Four Novellas (1993)
- White People (1991)