Calendar of Literary Facts
2005
- August Wilson dies (October 2)
- Ted Kooser receives the Pulitzer Prize in poetry for Delights & Shadows (April 4)
- Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan receive the Pulitzer Prize in biography for De Kooning: An American Master (April 4)
- David Hackett Fischer receives the Pulitzer Prize in history for Washington’s Crossing (April 4)
- John Patrick Shanley receives the Pulitzer Prize in drama for Doubt: A Parable (April 4)
- Marilynne Robinson receives the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for Gilead (April 4)
- Ossie Davis dies (February 5)
- Saul Bellow dies (April 5)
- John Fowles dies (November 5)
- Frank Conroy dies (April 6)
- Evan Hunter dies (July 6)
- Richard Eberhart dies (June 9)
- Arthur Miller dies (February 10)
- John Banville receives the Man Booker Prize for The Sea (October 10)
- Harold Pinter wins the Nobel Prize for Literature (October 12)
- Hunter S. Thompson dies (February 20)
- G. Cabrera Infante dies (February 21)
- Shana Alexander dies (June 23)
- M. Scott Peck dies (September 25)
- Augusto Roa Bastos dies (April 26)
- Shelby Foote dies (June 27)
- Robert Creeley dies (March 30)
