Nobel laureate and Pulitzer winner Ernest Hemingway (The Sun Also Rises, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Old Man and the Sea) was born on this day in 1899
	On his 26th birthday, Ernest Hemingway began writing The Sun Also Rises, regarded by many as his finest and most important work.
	J. R. R. Tolkien's The Fellowship of the Ring, the first part of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, was published on this day in 1954
	Michael Connelly (Echo Park) was born on this day in 1956
	Sarah Waters (Tipping the Velvet, Fingersmith) was born on this day in 1966
	J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the final book in the wildly popular heptalogy, was published on this day in 2007