The Nobel Prizes are awarded on December 10th each year. Laureates in Literature include such greats as Rudyard Kipling, George Bernard Shaw, Sinclair Lewis, Hermann Hesse, T.S. Eliot, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Boris Pasternak, John Steinbeck, Jean-Paul Sartre, Samuel Beckett, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, and Harold Pinter.
	Poet Emily Dickinson was born on this day in 1830
	Melvil Dewey, inventor of the Dewey Decimal System for library classification, was born on this day in 1851
	Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was first published, in Canada and the United Kingdom, on this day in 1884. The novel would not see publication in the United States until 1885.
	Alexander Solzhenitsyn (The Gulag Archipelago) was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature on this day in 1970, but would not receive it until four years later, after he had been deported from the Soviet Union.
	On this day in 1974, Alexander Solzhenitsyn (The Gulag Archipelago) finally received the Nobel Prize for Literature he had won four years earlier.