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.
J. P. Donleavy

Born: April 23, 1926
Died: September 11, 2017 (aged 91)
Bio: James Patrick Donleavy was an Irish American novelist and playwright. His first novel is The Ginger Man. Another novel, A Fairy Tale of New York, provided the title of the famous song "Fairytale of New York".
Known for:
- The Ginger Man (1955)
- The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B (1968)
- A Fairy Tale of New York (1973)
- A Singular Man (1963)
- The onion eaters (1971)