Quote of the day
The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.
Robert Rankin
Born: July 27, 1949 (age 75)
Bio: Robert Fleming Rankin is a prolific British humorous novelist. Born in Parsons Green, London, he started writing in the late 1970s, and first entered the bestsellers lists with Snuff Fiction in 1999, by which time his previous eighteen books had sold around one million copies.
Known for:
- The Antipope (1981)
- The Brentford Triangle (1982)
- East of Ealing (1984)
- The Witches of Chiswick (2003)