Quote of the day
An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up.
George Lamming

Born: June 8, 1927 (age 95)
Bio: George Lamming is a Barbadian novelist, essayist and poet and an important figure in Caribbean literature.
Known for:
- In the Castle of My Skin (1953)
- The pleasures of exile (1960)
- The emigrants (1954)
- Season of adventure (1960)
- Of age and innocence (1958)