Quote of the day
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
Helen DeWitt

Born: 1957 (age 68)
Bio: Helen DeWitt is a novelist. She is the author of the novels The Last Samurai and Lightning Rods, and in collaboration with the Australian journalist Ilya Gridneff has written Your Name Here. She lives in Berlin.
Known for:
- The Last Samurai (2000)
- Lightning Rods (2011)
- Cinema and Revolution (2013)
- Ho teleutaios samurai