Quote of the day
There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had had the free alternative as we now have, would have founded slavery.
Yiyun Li

Born: November 4, 1972 (age 52)
Bio: Yiyun Li is a Chinese American writer. Her debut short story collection A Thousand Years of Good Prayers won the 2005 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, and her second collection Gold Boy, Emerald Girl was shortlisted for the same award.
Known for:
- The Vagrants: A Novel (2009)
- Kinder Than Solitude (2013)
- A Thousand Years of Good Prayers (2005)
- Gold Boy, Emerald Girl (2010)
- A Sheltered Woman (2015)