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.
Leon Edel

Born: September 9, 1907
Died: September 5, 1997 (aged 89)
Bio: Joseph Leon Edel was a North American literary critic and biographer. He was the elder brother of North American philosopher Abraham Edel.
Known for:
- Henry James: A Life (1962)
- Writing Lives: Principia Biographica (1984)
- Henry James (1931)
- A bibliography of Henry James (1957)
- The visitable past