Calendar of Literary Facts

• Calendar of Literary Facts

Calendar of Literary Facts

1978

• Martin Amis publishes Success
• Susan Isaacs publishes Compromising Positions
• John Irving publishes The World According to Garp
• Judith Krantz publishes Scruples
• Robert Penn Warren publishes Now and Then: Poems, 1976-1978
• Luis Valdez publishes Zoot Suit
• Fay Weldon publishes Praxis
• E. B. White receives a Pulitzer Prize special citation for his literary corpus
• Mary Higgins Clark publishes A Stranger Is Watching
• James L. Collier publishes The Making of Jazz: A Comprehensive History
• The world’s first test-tube baby is born, in England
• Iris Murdoch receives the Booker Prize for The Sea, the Sea
• Amiri Baraka produces his drama What Was the Relationship of the Lone Ranger to the Means of Production?
• Eldridge Cleaver publishes Soul on Fire
• D. L. Coburn receives the Pulitzer Prize in drama for The Gin Game
• Marxist Sandinista guerillas wage war against the government in Nicaragua and overthrow President Anastasio Somoza
• Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, and American President Jimmy Carter old the Camp David Summit
• Karol Wojtyla of Poland is named pope of the Roman Catholic Church, becoming the first non-Italian to become pope in 456 years
• Ken Follett publishes Eye of the Needle
• William Manchester publishes American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur, 1880-1964
• Howard Nemerov receives the Pulitzer Prize for The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov
• David Plante publishes The Family
• Isaac Bashevis Singer receives the Nobel Prize for Literature
• Sam Shepard’s Buried Child is produced
• May Swenson publishes New and Selected Things Taking Place
• Octavia E. Butler publishes Survivor
• The Stories of John Cheever is published
• William Peter Blatty publishes The Ninth Configuration
• Tim O’Brien publishes Going after Cacciato
• Gordon Parks publishes Flavio
• M. Scott Peck publishes The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
• Armistead Maupin publishes Tales of the City
• Louis L’Amour publishes Bendigo Shafter
• Belva Plain publishes Evergreen
• Leonardo Boff publishes Jesus Christ Liberator: A Critical Christology of Our Time
• Patrick Lane receives the Governor General’s Literary Award in poetry, for Poems: New and Selected
• Kevin Major publishes Hold Fast
• Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Evita: The Legend of Eva Peron is produced
• Alex La Guma publishes Poems: New and Selected
• James Gould Cozzens dies (August 9)
• Louis Zukofsky dies (May 12)
• F. R. Leavis dies (April 14)
• Phyllis McGinley dies (February 22)