It's National Novel Writing Month!
	It's National Children's Book Week!
	Shelby Foote (The Civil War: A Narrative) died on this day in 1916
	Mervyn Peake (Gormenghast) died on this day in 1968
	Immanuel Velikovsky (Worlds in Collision) died on this day in 1979
	Christopher Paolini (Eragon) was born on this day in 1983
	Vladimir Nabokov's last novel, the unfinished The Original of Laura, was finally published on this day in 2009, 32 years after Nabokov's death, and against his explicit wishes that all his unfinished work be burned upon his death. Its critical reception would prove universally negative, vindicating the perfectionist Nabokov's insistence that the unfinished work be destroyed.
	Nobel laureate in literature Doris Lessing (The Grass is Singing, The Golden Notebook) died on this day in 2013