Quote of the day
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
Rudolph Fisher

Born: May 9, 1897
Died: December 26, 1934 (aged 37)
Bio: Rudolph Fisher was an African-American physician, radiologist, novelist, short story writer, dramatist, musician, and orator. His parents were John Wesley Fisher, a clergyman, and Glendora Williamson. Fisher had three children.
Known for:
- The conjure-man dies (1932)
- The city of refuge
- The Walls of Jericho (1928)
- The short fiction of Rudolph Fisher