Quote of the day
Good authors, too, who once knew better words
Now only use four-letter words
Writing prose —
Anything goes.
Robert Conquest
Born: July 15, 1917
Died: August 3, 2015 (aged 98)
Bio: George Robert Acworth Conquest was a British-American historian and poet, notable for his influential works on Soviet history including The Great Terror: Stalin's Purges of the 1930s.
Known for:
- The Great Terror (1968)
- The Harvest of Sorrow (1986)
- Stalin (1991)
- Reflections on a ravaged century (1999)
- The Dragons of Expectation (2005)