Quote of the day
My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black. Rather, it is rooted fundamentally in my Quaker upbringing and the values that were instilled in me by my grandparents who reared me.
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







