Edgar Allan Poe's best-known poem, The Raven, was published in the New York Evening Mirror on this day in 1845
	Anton Chekhov was born on this day in 1860
	Edward Lear (A Book of Nonsense) died on this day in 1888. Lear is best known for popularizing the Limerick.
	Edward Abbey (The Monkey Wrench Gang) was born on this day in 1927
	Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front was published on this day in 1929. Although a bestseller, it would soon be banned and burned in Nazi Germany.
	Germaine Greer (Sex and Destiny) was born on this day in 1939
	Journalist and satirist H. L. Mencken (The American Language) died on this day in 1956
	Robert Frost, four-time Pulitzer winning poet, died on this day in 1963
	Vietnam veteran and convicted library thief Gustav Hasford died on this day in 1993. His semi-autobiographical novel The Short-Timers would be adapted into Stanley Kubrick's acclaimed 1987 movie "Full Metal Jacket."
	Howard Frank Mosher (Where the Rivers Flow North) died on this day in 2017.