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.
Ellen Douglas

Born: July 12, 1921
Died: November 7, 2012 (aged 91)
Bio: Ellen Douglas was the pen name of Josephine Ayres Haxton, an American author. Her 1973 novel Apostles of Light was a National Book Award nominee.
Known for:
- Can't quit you, baby (1988)
- Apostles of light (1973)
- Truth (1998)
- The rock cried out (1979)
- A family's affairs (1962)