![]() | It's National Novel Writing Month! |
![]() | It's National Children's Book Week! |
![]() | Fyodor Dostoyevsky was sentenced to death on this day in 1849 for anti-Tsarist activities. The execution would be canceled at the last minute. |
![]() | Man Booker International Prize winner Chinua Achebe (Things Fall Apart) was born on this day in 1930 |
![]() | Terence McKenna (Food of the Gods) was born on this day in 1946 |
![]() | The film version of J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone started playing on this day in 2001, although in America alone, the title would be dumbed-down to Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone |
![]() | Laura Hillenbrand's Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption, a biography of World War II hero Louis Zamperini, a former Olympic track star who survived a plane crash in the Pacific theater, spent 47 days drifting on a raft, and then survived more than two and a half years as a prisoner of war in three brutal Japanese prisoner-of-war camps, was published on this day in 2010. |
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