National Children's Book Week begins (United States)
	It's National Novel Writing Month! There's still time to write a 50,000 word novel this month!
	Herman Melville's Moby-Dick was published in the United States on this day in 1851
	Robert Louis Stevenson's adventure novel Treasure Island was published on this day in 1883
	Stephen King's Pet Sematary was published on this day in 1983
	British journalist and author Malcolm Muggeridge (Winter in Moscow, Affairs of the Heart, The End of Christendom) died on this day in 1990
	British author and poet Owen Barfield (Poetic Diction: A Study In Meaning, Saving the Appearances: A Study in Idolatry) was born on this day in 1997. Barfield was the founder of the literary discussion group The Inklings, whose members included J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis.
	Philip Pullman's The Amber Spyglass, third in the "His Dark Materials" trilogy, was published on this day in 2001