Quote of the day
The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.
John Prebble

Born: June 23, 1915
Died: January 30, 2001  (aged 85)
Bio: John Edward Curtis Prebble was an English journalist, novelist, documentarian and popular historian. He is best known for his studies of Scottish history.
Known for:
- The Highland Clearances (1963)
 - Culloden (1961)
 - Glencoe: The Story of the Massacre (1961)
 - The Darien Disaster (1968)
 






