October is National Book Month, National Reading Group Month, National Cookbook Month.
October 28th 1908
Evelyn Waugh is born.
Popular works include: Brideshead Revisited, A Handful of Dust, Decline and Fall.
October 30th 1938
Orson Welles’s Halloween Eve radio broadcast describes in a dramatized fashion a Martian invasion of the Earth, based upon H. G. Wells's novel, The War of the Worlds, terrifies many radio listeners throughout the United States.
October 31st 1795
John Keats is born.
Popular works include: Poet, Ode on a Grecian Urn, A Song About Myself, Ode to a Nightingale.
November is National Native American Heritage Month, Family Literacy Month, Family Stories Month, Picture Book Month, National Novel Writing Month, National Memoir Writing Month.
November 1st
National Family Literacy Day.
November 1st
Author’s Day.
