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.
Patricia Hampl

Born: March 12, 1946 (age 79)
Bio: Patricia Hampl is an American memoirist, writer, lecturer, and educator. She teaches in the MFA program at the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis and is one of the founding members of the Loft Literary Center.
Known for:
- The Florist's Daughter (2007)
- A romantic education (1981)
- Blue Arabesque: A Search for the Sublime (2006)
- I Could Tell You Stories (1999)
- Virgin Time (1992)