Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin began its 10-month serial run in The National Era on this day in 1851
	William Sydney Porter, better known as O. Henry (The Gift of the Magi) died on this day in 1910
	Richard Scarry, bestselling childrens' author, was born on this day in 1919
	Margaret Drabble (The Millstone, The Witch of Exmoor) was born on this day in 1939
	Ken Follett (Eye of the Needle) was born on this day in 1949
	Rick Riordan (Percy Jackson and the Olympians series) was born on this day in 1964
	Eric Van Lustbader continued his revival of Robert Ludlum's Jason Bourne series with the publication of The Bourne Betrayal on this day in 2007, the fifth in the series and Lustbader's second.
	Booker Prize-winning writer Barry Unsworth (Sacred Hunger) died on this day in 2012