Quote of the day
The adoption by Jefferson and the Republicans of the political structure of their opponents is of an importance hardly inferior to that of the adoption of the Constitution by the states.
Padgett Powell

Born: April 25, 1952 (age 73)
Bio: Padgett Powell is an American novelist in the Southern literary tradition. His debut novel, Edisto, was nominated for the American Book Award and was excerpted in The New Yorker.
Known for:
- The Interrogative Mood: A Novel? (2009)
- Edisto (1984)
- Cries for Help, Various: Stories (2015)
- You & Me: A Novel (2012)
- Mrs. Hollingsworth's Men (2000)






