Quote of the day
The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.
Judith Merril
Born: January 21, 1923
Died: September 12, 1997 (aged 74)
Bio: Judith Josephine Grossman, who took the pen-name Judith Merril about 1945, was an American and then Canadian science fiction writer, editor and political activist, and one of the first women to be widely influential in those roles.
Known for:
- Shadow on the Hearth (1950)
- The Tomorrow People (1960)
- Homecalling And Other Stories