Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol was published on this day in 1843. A novella about the miser Ebenezer Scrooge and his transformation after being visited by three ghosts on Christmas Eve, A Christmas Carol has been reinterpreted numerous times in cinema and on stage and is perhaps English literature's most enduring and beloved Christmas parable.
	Emily Brontë (Wuthering Heights) died on this day in 1848
	V. C. Andrews (Flowers in the Attic) died on this day in 1986
	Novelist and investigative reporter Clifford Irving, who is best known for penning a hoax autobiography of Howard Hughes in 1972, died on this day in 2017. Irving was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison for the hoax.