Quote of the day
The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
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.