Calendar of Literary Facts
2006
- Irving Layton dies (January 4)
- Peter Benchley dies (February 12)
- Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin receive the Pulitzer Prize in biography for American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (April 17)
- David M. Oshinsky receives the Pulitzer Prize in history for Polio: An American Story (April 17)
- Claudia Emerson receives the Pulitzer Prize in poetry for Late Wife (April 17)
- Geraldine Brooks receives the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for March (April 17)
- Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin dies (February 25)
- John Kenneth Galbraith dies (April 29)
- Wendy Wasserstein dies (January 30)
