Quote of the day
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
Michael Dirda
Born: 1948 (age 77)
Bio: Michael Dirda is a book critic for the Washington Post. He has been a Fulbright Fellow and won a Pulitzer Prize in 1993.
Known for:
- Classics for Pleasure (2007)
- Book by Book: Notes on Reading and Life (2006)
- Readings: Essays and Literary Entertainments (2000)