It's National Novel Writing Month!
	It's National Children's Book Week!
	Voltaire, French Enlightenment satirist, was born on this day in 1694
	Marilyn French (The Women's Room) was born on this day in 1929
	Two-time Whitbread award winning novelist Beryl Bainbridge (Every Man for Himself, The Bottle Factory Outing) was born on this day in 1934
	Richard Leigh (Holy Blood and the Holy Grail) died on this day in 2007. Leigh had claimed that material from his book was plagiarized by Dan Brown in The Da Vinci Code.
	Anne McCaffrey (Dragonriders of Pern books) died on this day in 2011