It's National Novel Writing Month! | |
Wilkie Collins' early mystery novel The Woman in White was first published on this day in 1859 | |
On this day in 1864, Lewis Carroll sent 10-year-old Alice Liddell a handwritten manuscript that would become Alice's Adventures in Wonderland as a christmas gift. | |
Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was published on this day in 1865. | |
Nebula Grand Master science fiction writer Frederik Pohl (Man Plus) was born on this day in 1919. Notably, Pohl completed Arthur C. Clarke's unfinished final novel, The Last Theorem. | |
Charles M. Schulz (Peanuts) was born on this day in 1922 | |
Marilynne Robinson (Housekeeping, Gilead) was born on this day in 1943 | |
Tracy Hickman (Dragonlance, The Immortals) was born on this day in 1955 | |
On this day in 1985, sitting U. S. President Ronald Reagan signed over his autobiography rights to Random House for $3 million | |
Stan Berenstain (The Berenstain Bears) died on this day in 2005 |
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