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.
Madison Smartt Bell

Born: August 1, 1957 (age 68)
Bio: Madison Smartt Bell is an American novelist. He is known for his trilogy of novels about Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution, published 1995 2004.
Known for:
- All Souls' Rising (1995)
- Master of the crossroads (2000)
- Narrative design (1996)
- Toussaint Louverture: A Biography (2007)
- The Color of Night (2011)