Quote of the day
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. Simplification is the essence of abstraction from which objective values are not necessarily eliminated.
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






