Quote of the day
What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Judith Ortiz Cofer
Born: February 24, 1952
Died: December 30, 2016 (aged 64)
Bio: Judith Ortiz Cofer was a Puerto Rican American author. Her critically acclaimed and award-winning work spans a range of literary genres including poetry, short stories, autobiography, essays, and young-adult fiction.
Known for:
- The Latin Deli: Prose and Poetry (1993)
- Silent dancing (1990)
- Call Me Maria (2004)
- An Island Like You: Stories of the Barrio (1995)
- The line of the sun (1989)