Quote of the day
My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black. Rather, it is rooted fundamentally in my Quaker upbringing and the values that were instilled in me by my grandparents who reared me.
Franz Werfel
Born: September 10, 1890
Died: August 26, 1945 (aged 54)
Bio: Franz Viktor Werfel was an Austrian-Bohemian novelist, playwright, and poet whose career spanned World War I, the Interwar period, and World War II.
Known for:
- The Forty Days of Musa Dagh (1933)
- The Song of Bernadette (1941)
- Class Reunion (1928)
- Eine Blassblaue Frauenschrift (1941)
- Stern der Ungeborenen. Ein Reiseroman.








