Quote of the day
There are no countries in the world less known by the British than these selfsame British Islands, or where more strange things are every day occurring.
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