Quote of the day
The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.
Dumas Malone

Born: January 10, 1892
Died: December 27, 1986  (aged 94)
Bio: Dumas Malone was an American historian, biographer, and editor noted for his six-volume biography on Thomas Jefferson, Jefferson and His Time, for which he received the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for history. In 1983 he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Known for:
- Jefferson and His Time (1948)
 - The Sage of Monticello (1981)
 - Jefferson and the Rights of Man (1951)
 - Thomas Jefferson: A Brief Biography
 






