Quote of the day
That liberty is a great thing we may know from our own feelings, and we may likewise judge so from the conduct of the white-people, in the late war.
Jean Genet
Born: December 19, 1910
Died: April 15, 1986 (aged 75)
Bio: Jean Genet was a French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist. Early in his life he was a vagabond and petty criminal, but later took to writing.
Known for:
- The Maids (1958)
- The Balcony (1956)
- The Blacks: A Clown Show (1958)
- Our Lady of the Flowers (1943)
- The Screens (1961)
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