Calendar of Literary Facts
2000
- Nelson DeMille publishes The Lion’s Game
- Margaret Atwood receives the Booker Prize for The Blind Assassin
- J. K. Rowling publishes Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- Gao Xingjian receives the Nobel Prize for Literature
- C. K. Williams receives the Pulitzer Prize in poetry for Repair
- Donald Margulies receives the Pulitzer Prize in drama for Dinner with Friends
- The booming U.S. economy begins to slow after nearly a decade of growth; many dot-com businesses fail
- Martin Amis publishes Experience
- Stanley Kunitz is appointed Poet Laureate of the United States, for a term beginning in October, 2000 (August 1)
- Yearlong fears of global disaster because of the “Y2K bug” end on New Years Day, with little computer-related disruption of power and services worldwide (January 1)
- Robert Cormier dies (November 2)
- Gwendolyn Brooks dies (December 3)
- Dudley Randall dies (August 5)
- Karl Shapiro dies (May 14)
- A. W. Purdy dies (April 21)
- Barbara Cartland dies (May 21)
- Anne Hebert dies (January 22)
- R. S. Thomas dies (September 25)
- Yehuda Amichai dies (September 25)
- Alex Comfort dies (March 26)
- Malcolm Bradbury dies (November 27)
- Penelope Fitzgerald dies (April 28)