Quote of the day
By their victory, the 3rd, 4th and 5th Marine Divisions and other units of the Fifth Amphibious Corps have made an accounting to their country which only history will be able to value fully. Among the Americans serving on Iwo island, uncommon valor was a common virtue.
Janette Turner Hospital

Born: November 12, 1942 (age 82)
Bio: Janette Turner Hospital is an Australian-born novelist and short story writer who has lived most of her adult life in Canada or the US, principally Boston, Kingston and Columbia.
Known for:
- Orpheus Lost (2007)
- Due preparations for the plague (2003)
- The Ivory Swing (1982)
- The Last Magician (1992)
- The Tiger in the Tiger Pit (1983)