Quote of the day
We must have religion for religion's sake, morality for morality's sake, as with art for art's sake…the beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself.
Donald Hamilton

Born: March 24, 1916
Died: November 20, 2006 (aged 90)
Bio: Donald Bengtsson Hamilton was an American writer of novels, short stories, and non-fiction about the outdoors. His novels consist mostly of paperback originals, principally spy fiction, but also crime fiction and westerns, such as The Big Country.
Known for:
- Death of a Citizen (1960)
- The Removers (1961)
- The Ravagers (1964)
- The Damagers (1993)
- The Wrecking Crew (1960)






