Quote of the day
There are no countries in the world less known by the British than these selfsame British Islands, or where more strange things are every day occurring.
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)