Quote of the day
The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Russian.
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)