Quote of the day
I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
Perry Miller
Born: February 25, 1905
Died: December 9, 1963 (aged 58)
Bio: Perry G. E. Miller was an American intellectual historian and Harvard University professor. He was an authority on American Puritanism, and a co-founder of the field of American Studies. Alfred Kazin referred to him as "the master of American intellectual history".
Known for:
- The New England mind (1939)
- Errand into the wilderness (1952)
- American Puritans Their Prose and Poetry (1956)
- The Raven and the Whale (1956)
- The Transcendentalists (1950)