Quote of the day
A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people, as no historical reconstruction can.
Lanford Wilson

Born: April 13, 1937
Died: March 24, 2011 (aged 73)
Bio: Lanford Wilson was a Pulitzer Prize winning, American playwright, whose work, as described by the New York Times, was "earthy, realist, greatly admired widely performed".
Known for:
- Burn This (1987)
- Talley's Folly (1979)
- Fifth of July (1978)
- The Hot l Baltimore (1973)
- Balm in Gilead (1984)