Quote of the day
Still falls the Rain —
Dark as the world of man, black as our loss —
Blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails
Upon the Cross.
Qiu Xiaolong
Born: 1953 (age 73)
Bio: Qiu Xiaolong is an English-language poet, literary translator, crime novelist, critic, and academic, currently living in St. Louis, Missouri, with his wife Wang Lijun and daughter Julia Qiu. He originally visited the United States in 1988 to write a book about T. S.
Known for:
- Death of a Red Heroine (2000)
- The Mao Case (2007)
- A Loyal Character Dancer (2002)
- When Red Is Black (2004)
- A Case of Two Cities (2006)







