Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter was published on this day in 1850
	Alice Hoffman (Practical Magic) was born on this day in 1952
	Anne Rice's Vittorio the Vampire was published on this day in 1999
	On this day in 2002, Authorities in Saudi Arabia arrested and jailed poet Abdul Mohsen Musalam and fired a newspaper editor for publishing his poem The Corrupt on Earth which criticizes the Saudi Islamic judiciary.
	Youth author Russell Freedman (Newbery winner Lincoln: A Photobiography) died on this day in 2018