It's Banned Books Week! Have you read a banned book today?
Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary was first published on this day in 1856 (serialised in La Revue de Paris - it would be published in whole as a book in April, 1857)
DC Comics writer and editor Dorothy Woolfolk (Superman collaborator) was born on this day in 1913. She is credited with the creation of Kryptonite, Superman's sole weakness.
