Quote of the day
There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot.
James Branch Cabell
Born: April 14, 1879
Died: May 5, 1958 (aged 79)
Bio: James Branch Cabell was an American author of fantasy fiction and belles lettres. Cabell was well regarded by his contemporaries, including H. L. Mencken, Edmund Wilson, and Sinclair Lewis.
Known for:
- Jurgen, A Comedy of Justice (1919)
- Figures of Earth (1921)
- The Cream of the Jest (1917)
- Something About Eve (1927)
- The silver stallion (1926)
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