It's National Novel Writing Month! There's still time to write a 50,000 word novel this month!
	Oliver Goldsmith (The Vicar of Wakefield, The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes) was born on this day in 1728
	Neil Gaiman (The Sandman) was born on this day in 1960
	Dennis Wheatley (The Devil Rides Out and dozens of other occult thrillers) died on this day in 1977
	Australian author Xavier Herbert (Miles Franklin Award-winning Poor Fellow My Country) died on this day in 1984
	Stephen King's The Tommyknockers was published on this day in 1987
	Ken Kesey (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) died on this day in 2001
	Norman Mailer (The Executioner's Song) died on this day in 2007
	Stephen King's Under the Dome was published on this day in 2009
	Oxford University's Bodleian Library received its twelve millionth book, the only surviving copy of Percy Bysshe Shelley's subersive Poetical Essay on the Existing State of Things, on this day in 2015.