Kay Boyle (The Underground Woman) was born on this day in 1902. Her first novel, Process was written in 1925 but not published until 2001. Boyle and her husband both lost their jobs to McCarthyism in the early 1950s but were cleared by the State Department in 1957.
	Amy Tan (The Joy Luck Club) was born on this day in 1952
	The state of Georgia approved the first literature censorship board in the United States on this day in 1953
	Jeff Kinney (Diary of a Wimpy Kid) was born on this day in 1971
	Umberto Eco (The Name of the Rose, The Prague Cemetery, Foucault's Pendulum) died on this day in 2016
	Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird, Go Set a Watchman) died on this day in 2016