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.
Steven Millhauser

Born: August 3, 1943 (age 82)
Bio: Steven Millhauser is an American novelist and short story writer. He won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel Martin Dressler. The prize brought many of his older books back into print.
Known for:
- Voices in the Night: Stories (2015)
- We Others: New and Selected Stories (2011)
- Dangerous Laughter (2008)
- The Knife Thrower and Other Stories (1998)