Calendar of Literary Facts
1999
- J. M. Coetzee receives the Booker Prize for Disgrace
- E. Annie Proulx publishes Close Range: Wyoming Stories
- Anne Rice publishes Vittorio the Vampire
- Salman Rushdie publishes The Ground beneath Her Feet
- Mark Strand receives the Pulitzer Prize in poetry for Blizzard of One
- John Updike edits and publishes The Best American Short Stories of the Century
- The Chinese government bans the Falun Gong sect as well as all books by and about the sect
- The U.S. Senate acquits President Bill Clinton of impeachment charges
- NATO air-strikes are launched in response to Serbian attacks on ethnic Albanians in Kosovo
- Michael Cunningham receives the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for The Hours
- Margaret Edson receives the Pulitzer Prize in drama for W;t
- Günter Grass receives the Nobel Prize for Literature
- J. K. Rowling publishes Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
- Donald Margulies’s Dinner with Friends is published
- Jhumpa Lahiri publishes Interpreter of Maladies
- John Grisham publishes The Testament
- Mary Higgins Clark publishes We’ll Meet Again
- Maeve Binchy publishes Tara Road
- Mario Puzo dies (July 2)
- Matt Cohen dies (December 2)
- Sherley Anne Williams dies (July 6)
- Adolfo Bioy Casares dies (March 8)
- Iris Murdoch dies (February 8)
- Joao Cabral de Melo Neto dies (October 9)
- Shel Silverstein dies (May 10)
- William H(oward) Armstrong dies (April 11)
- Brian Moore dies (January 11)
- Joseph Heller dies (December 12)
- Jean Shepherd dies (October 16)
- Andre Dubus dies (February 24)
- Marion Zimmer Bradley dies (September 25)
- Alice (Boyd) Adams dies (May 27)
