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.
Pete Hamill
Born: June 24, 1935
Died: August 5, 2020 (aged 85)
Bio: Pete Hamill was an American journalist, novelist, essayist, editor and educator.
Known for:
- A Drinking Life: A Memoir (1994)
- Snow in August (1997)
- Downtown (2004)
- Why Sinatra Matters (1998)
- Forever (2003)