Quote of the day
If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.
Robert Coover
Born: February 4, 1932
Died: October 5, 2024 (aged 92)
Bio: Robert Lowell Coover was an American novelist, short story writer, and professor emeritus in the Literary Arts program at Brown University. He was generally considered a writer of fabulation and metafiction.
Known for:
- The Public Burning (1977)
- The Origin of the Brunists (1966)
- Pricksongs & Descants (1969)
- The Brunist Day of Wrath (2014)