Quote of the day
Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.
Berlie Doherty

Born: November 6, 1943 (age 81)
Bio: Berlie Doherty is an English novelist, poet, playwright and screenwriter. She is best known for children's books, for which she has twice won the Carnegie Medal.
Known for:
- Dear Nobody (1991)
- Street child (1994)
- Granny Was a Buffer Girl (1986)
- Children of Winter (1985)
- The Company of Ghosts (2013)