Quote of the day
The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.
Piers Paul Read

Born: March 7, 1941 (age 84)
Bio: Piers Paul Read is an award-winning English novelist, historian and biographer.
Known for:
- Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors (1974)
- The Death of a Pope (2009)
- Alice in exile (2001)
- The Misogynist (2010)
- Scarpia (2015)