Quote of the day
With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
Magdalen Nabb

Born: January 16, 1947
Died: August 18, 2007 (aged 60)
Bio: Magdalen Nabb was a British author, best known for the Marshal Guarnaccia detective novels.
Known for:
- Death of an Englishman (1981)
- The enchanted horse (1992)
- Death of a Dutchman (1982)
- Some bitter taste (2002)
- The marshal and the madwoman (1988)