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.
Jesse Stuart
Born: August 8, 1906
Died: February 17, 1984 (aged 77)
Bio: Jesse Hilton Stuart was an American writer, school teacher, and school administrator who is known for his short stories, poetry, and novels as well as non-fiction autobiographical works set in central Appalachia.
Known for:
- The thread that runs so true (1943)
- Split cherry tree (1983)
- Man with a bull-tongue plow (1934)
- The beatinest boy (1953)
- A penny's worth of character (1954)