Quote of the day
It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
William Hill Brown
Born: November, 1765
Died: September 2, 1793 (aged 27)
Bio: William Hill Brown was an American novelist, the author of what is usually considered the first American novel, The Power of Sympathy, and "Harriot, or the Domestic Reconciliation", as well as the serial essay "The Reformer", published in Isaiah Thomas' Massachusetts Magazine.