It's National Novel Writing Month! If you're participating, this is the deadline for completing your 50,000 word novel!
	Jonathan Swift (Gulliver's Travels) was born on this day in 1667
	Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, The Prince and the Pauper), was born on this day in 1835
	Oscar Wilde (The Importance of Being Earnest, The Picture of Dorian Gray) died on this day in 1900
	Kathy Acker (Blood and Guts in High School) died on this day in 1997
	Pierre Berton, Canadian historian (The Last Spike), died on this day in 2004
	Anne Rice's Of Love and Evil was published on this day in 2010