Quote of the day
After all my years of playing soldiers, and then of reading History, I have almost a mania to be in the East, to see fighting, and to serve.
James Kelman

Born: June 9, 1946 (age 79)
Bio: James Kelman is an influential Scottish writer of novels, short stories, plays, and political essays. His novel A Disaffection was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction in 1989.
Known for:
- How Late It Was, How Late (1994)
- A Disaffection (1989)
- Kieron Smith, Boy (2008)
- Mo Said She Was Quirky (2012)
- The Busconductor Hines (1984)






