Quote of the day
My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black. Rather, it is rooted fundamentally in my Quaker upbringing and the values that were instilled in me by my grandparents who reared me.
Horace McCoy

Born: April 14, 1897
Died: December 15, 1955 (aged 58)
Bio: Horace McCoy was an American writer whose hardboiled novels took place during the Great Depression. His best-known novel is They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, which was made into a movie of the same name in 1969, fourteen years after McCoy's death.
Known for:
- They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1935)
- I Should Have Stayed at Home (1938)
- No Pockets in a Shroud (1937)
- Horace McCoy's Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye. (1948)







