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.