Quote of the day
After all my years of playing soldiers, and then of reading History, I have almost a mania to be in the East, to see fighting, and to serve.
Harriet E. Wilson

Born: March 15, 1825
Died: June 28, 1900 (aged 75)
Bio: Harriet E. Wilson is considered the first female African-American novelist, as well as the first African American of any gender to publish a novel on the North American continent.
Known for:
- Our Nig (1859)
- The Soul of a Woman






