Calendar of Literary Facts
1993
- Yusef Komunyakaa publishes Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems
- Louise Gluck receives the Pulitzer Prize in poetry for The Wild Iris
- The 51-day siege of the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, ends in a blazing inferno
- The World Trade Center in New York is rocked by a terrorist bomb
- Czechoslovakia divides along ethnic lines into two nations: Slovakia and the Czech Republic
- Robert Olen Butler receives Pulitzer Prize in fiction for A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
- E. Annie Proulx publishes The Shipping News
- Wallace Stegner dies
- Carol Shields publishes Stone Diaries
- Tony Kushner receives an Antoinette Perry (Tony) Award for best play for part one of Angels in America: Millennium Approaches
- Toni Morrison receives the Nobel Prize for Literature
- Tony Kushner receives the Pulitzer Prize in drama for part one of Angels in America: Millennium Approaches
- Roddy Doyle receives the Booker Prize for Paddy Clark Ha Ha Ha
- Rita Dove is named Poet Laureate of United States
- Marion Zimmer Bradley publishes Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Darkover
- Novelist Toni Morrison becomes the first black American to win the Nobel Prize for literature (October 7)
- Eleanor Alice Burford Hibbert (“Victoria Holt”) dies (January 18)
- Sir William Golding dies (June 19)
- Maya Angelou reads her poem “On the Pulse of Morning” at the inauguration of President Bill Clinton (January 20)
- Kobo Abe dies (January 22)
- John Hersey dies (March 24)
- John Burgess Wilson (Anthony Burgess) dies (November 25)
- William Stafford dies (August 28)
- Peter De Vries dies (September 28)