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.
René Maran

Born: November 8, 1887
Died: May 9, 1960 (aged 72)
Bio: René Maran was a French Guyanese poet and novelist, and the first black writer to win the French Prix Goncourt.