Quote of the day
The Dodo never had a chance. He seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of becoming extinct and that was all he was good for.
Shirley Geok-lin Lim

Born: December 27, 1944 (age 80)
Bio: Shirley Geok-lin Lim was born in Malacca Malaysia. She is an American writer of poetry, fiction, and criticism. Her first collection of poems, Crossing The Peninsula, published in 1980, won her the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, a first both for an Asian and for a woman.
Known for:
- Among the white moon faces (1996)
- Joss and Gold (2002)
- One World of Literature (1993)
- Monsoon History (1994)
- What the fortune teller didn't say (1998)