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.
Gustavo Pérez Firmat

Born: March 3, 1949 (age 76)
Bio: A writer and scholar, Gustavo Pérez Firmat was born in Havana, Cuba, and raised in Miami, Florida. He attended Miami-Dade Community College, the University of Miami, and the University of Michigan, where he earned a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature.
Known for:
- Life on the hyphen (1994)
- Bilingual blues (1995)
- El año que viene estamos en Cuba (1997)
- The Cuban condition (1989)
- Tongue ties (2003)