The final serialised installment of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations was published on this day in 1861
	Leon Uris (Exodus) was born on this day in 1924
	Joseph Conrad (Heart of Darkness, Nostromo, Lord Jim) died on this day in 1924
	Flannery O'Connor (Wise Blood) died on this day in 1964
	The United States Postal Service issued a 22 cent postage stamp in honour of William Faulkner on this day in 1987
	Alexander Solzhenitsyn (The Gulag Archipelago), Nobel prize winner in Literature, died on this day in 2008.