James Fenimore Cooper (The Last of the Mohicans) was born on this day in 1789 | |
Agatha Christie (Murder on the Orient Express) was born on this day in 1890 | |
Betty Neels, prolific British romance novelist, was born on this day in 1910 | |
Caldecott Medal winning children's writer and illustrator Robert McCloskey (Make Way for Ducklings) was born on this day in 1914 | |
Vladimir Nabokov's controversial Lolita was published in Paris on this day in 1955 | |
Stephen King's It was published on this day in 1986 | |
Stephen King and Peter Straub's Black House was published on this day in 2001 |
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