Quote of the day
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
Edward Robb Ellis

Born: February 22, 1911
Died: September 7, 1998 (aged 87)
Bio: Edward Robb Ellis was a diarist and journalist who worked in New Orleans, Oklahoma City, Chicago, and New York City.
Known for:
- The epic of New York City (1966)
- A diary of the century (1995)
- A nation in torment (1970)