Quote of the day
One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.
Mary Ellen Chase

Born: February 24, 1887
Died: July 28, 1973 (aged 86)
Bio: Mary Ellen Chase was an American educator, teacher, scholar, and author. She is regarded as one of the most important regional literary figures of the early twentieth century.
Known for:
- Silas Crockett (1935)
- Windswept (1941)
- The lovely ambition (1960)
- The Girl From The Big Horn Country (1916)
- A journey to Boston (1965)






