James Fenimore Cooper (The Last of the Mohicans) was born on this day in 1789
	Agatha Christie (Murder on the Orient Express) was born on this day in 1890
	Betty Neels, prolific British romance novelist, was born on this day in 1910
	Caldecott Medal winning children's writer and illustrator Robert McCloskey (Make Way for Ducklings) was born on this day in 1914
	Vladimir Nabokov's controversial Lolita was published in Paris on this day in 1955
	Stephen King's It was published on this day in 1986
	Stephen King and Peter Straub's Black House was published on this day in 2001