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.
Murray Kempton

Born: December 16, 1917
Died: May 5, 1997 (aged 79)
Bio: James Murray Kempton was an American journalist and social and political commentator. He won a National Book Award in 1974 for The Briar Patch: The People of the State of New York versus Lumumba Shakur, et al.
Known for:
- Rebellions, perversities, and main events (1994)
- The Briar Patch (1973)
- Part of Our Time (1955)
- America Comes of Middle Age (1963)