It's National Poetry Month in Great Britain!
	Justin Winsor, first president of the American Library Association and a pioneer of the librarian's profession, died on this day in 1897. The ALA's Justin Winsor Prize for the best library history essay is named in his honour.
	Nobel laureate in literature Doris Lessing (The Grass is Singing, The Golden Notebook) was born on this day in 1919
	Timothy Leary (The Politics of Ecstasy) was born on this day in 1920
	Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, widely regarded as his finest and most important work, was published on this day in 1926.
	True-Crime queen Ann Rule (Possession) was born on this day in 1935
	Jean-Paul Sartre turned down the Nobel prize for literature on this day in 1964
	Pop singer Madonna published Sex, a controversial coffee-table art photography book on this day in 1992
	Sir Kingsley Amis (Lucky Jim) died on this day in 1995
	British thriller writer Eric Ambler (The Mask of Dimitrios, The Light of Day) died on this day in 1998