Quote of the day
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Peter Carey
![Peter Carey](/img/nopic_profile.png)
Born: May 7, 1943 (age 81)
Bio: Peter Philip Carey is an Australian novelist. Carey has won the Miles Franklin Award three times and is frequently named as Australia's next contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Known for:
- Oscar and Lucinda (1988)
- True History of the Kelly Gang (2000)
- Jack Maggs (1997)
- Illywhacker (1985)
- Amnesia (2014)