Quote of the day
There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot.
Morris Bishop

Born: April 15, 1893
Died: November 20, 1973 (aged 80)
Bio: Morris Gilbert Bishop was an American scholar, historian, biographer, essayist, translator, anthologist and versifier.
Known for:
- Petrarch and his world (1963)
- The widening stain (1942)
- A medieval storybook (1970)
- A gallery of eccentrics (1928)
- A Survey of French Literature (1955)