Quote of the day
Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition
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