Quote of the day
There are no countries in the world less known by the British than these selfsame British Islands, or where more strange things are every day occurring.
Fanny Howe

Born: October 15, 1940 (age 84)
Bio: Fanny Howe is an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. She has written many novels in prose collection. Howe was awarded the 2009 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, presented annually by the Poetry Foundation to a living U.S.
Known for:
- The wedding dress (2003)
- Radical Love: 5 Novels (2006)
- The Winter Sun: Notes on a Vocation (2009)
- One crossed out (1997)
- Second Childhood: Poems (2014)