Quote of the day
With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
Harriet Doerr
Born: April 8, 1910
Died: November 24, 2002 (aged 92)
Bio: Harriet Huntington Doerr was an American author whose debut novel was published at the age of 74.
Known for:
- Stones for Ibarra (1984)
- Consider This, Señora (1993)
- The tiger in the grass (1995)
- Piedras para Ibarra (1988)
- Stones for Ibarra 11-Copy (1990)