Quote of the day
Most of the slaves, who were thus unconditionally freed, returned without any solicitation to their former masters, to serve them, at stated wages; as free men. The work, which they now did, was found to better done than before.
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)