March 11 can be considered a landmark date for all book lovers. According to Chinese chronicles, it was on this day in 105 A.D. that Cai Lun, a Chinese dignitary of the Han Dynasty, obtained paper from bamboo fibers. Before that, paper in China was made from hemp, and even earlier from silk, which was made from defective silkworm cocoons.

March 2 is National Read Across America Day, an annual holiday held by the National Education Association since 1998. It is not a coincidence that the popular American children's author and cartoonist Theodore Seuss Geisel, known as Dr. Seuss, was born on this day.

George Gordon Byron was born on 22 January 1788 in London. A childhood spent in a crumbling castle inherited from an uncle, heavy clashes with a powerful mother, a physical handicap (a small congenital limp that caused ridicule) All this contributed to the early awakening of a sense of loneliness and alien to the world around us. This feeling became one of Byron’s dominant texts.

The famous writer, poet, philologist, professor at Oxford University John Ronald Reuel Tolkien. It was he who gave the world the wonderful books "The Hobbit, or There and Back", "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Silmarillion", which formed a modern view of works in the fantasy genre.