Quote of the day
My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black. Rather, it is rooted fundamentally in my Quaker upbringing and the values that were instilled in me by my grandparents who reared me.
Sidney Howard
Born: June 26, 1891
Died: August 23, 1939 (aged 48)
Bio: Sidney Coe Howard was an American playwright, dramatist and screenwriter. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1925 and a posthumous Academy Award in 1940 for the screenplay for Gone with the Wind.
Known for:
- Gone with the Wind (1939)
- Dodsworth (1936)
- Arrowsmith (1931)
- Bulldog Drummond (1929)
- A Lady to Love (1930)







