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.
Joan Smith
Born: August 27, 1953 (age 72)
Bio: Joan Alison Smith is an English journalist, novelist, and human rights activist, who is a former chair of the Writers in Prison committee in the English section of International PEN and was the Executive Director Hacked Off.
Known for:
- Misogynies (1989)
- A Masculine Ending (1987)
- Clouds of Deceit (1985)
- Why aren't they screaming? (1988)
- The Folk Doll of Sion (1973)