Quote of the day
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Van Wyck Brooks
![Van Wyck Brooks](/img/nopic_profile.png)
Born: February 16, 1886
Died: May 2, 1963 (aged 77)
Bio: Van Wyck Brooks was an American literary critic, biographer, and historian.
Known for:
- The Flowering of New England, 1815-1865 (1936)
- The ordeal of Mark Twain (1920)
- America's coming-of-age (1915)
- The times of Melville and Whitman (1947)
- The wine of the Puritans (1908)