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Calendar of Literary Facts
1974
Nadine Gordimer and Stanley Middleton share the Booker Prize for their respective works The Conservationist and Holiday
R. K. Narayan publishes My Days: A Memoir John Crowe Ransom dies Rosemary Rogers publishes Sweet Savage Love
Angela Davis publishes Angela Davis: An Autobiography
Robert M. Pirsig publishes Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Marilyn Hacker publishes Presentation Piece Nadine Gordimer publishes The Conservationist Dario Fo publishes Morte accidentale di un anarchico (Accidental Death of an Anarchist Nadine Gordimer receives the Booker Prize in fiction for The Conservationist Gary Snyder publishes Turtle Island Gail Godwin publishes The Odd Woman Mark Medoff receives Obie Award for When You Comin’ Back, Red Ryder? James Welch publishes Winter in the Blood U.S. President Richard Nixon resigns from office in the wake of the Watergate scandal
Augusto Roa Bastos publishes Yo el supremo (I the Supreme )
Ernesto Sábato publishes Abaddon, el Exterminador Russell Kirk publishes The Roots of American Order Martin Amis publishes The Rachel Papers Dave Smith publishes The Fisherman’s Whore George E. Kelly dies
Longtime emperor of Ethiopia, Haile Selassie, is deposed
A coup deposes the military dictatorship in Portugal
Upon assuming the U.S. presidency, Gerald R. Ford pardons former-President Richard M. Nixon
Because of his book The Gulag Archipelago , Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is arrested and forced to leave the Soviet Union; he settles first in Zurich, then (in 1976) in Vermont, where he continues writing
Philip K. Dick publishes Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said John Jakes publishes The Bastard Terrence McNalley receives Obie Award for Bad Habits
Clarence Major publishes The Syncopated Cakewalk Peter Benchley publishes Jaws Frank Chin’s The Year of the Dragon is produced
Barbara Chase-Riboud publishes From Memphis and Peking
Michael Shaara publishes The Killer Angels Stephen Sondheim’s A Little Night Music is produced
Miguel Angel Asturias dies Paula Gunn Allen publishes The Blind Lion May Sarton publishes Collected Poems: 1930-1973 Clive James publishes The Metropolitan Critic
Mark Medoff publishes When You Comin’ Back, Red Ryder? Peter Shaffer’s Equus
Annie Dillard publishes Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Robert Cormier publishes The Chocolate War Paer Lagerkvist dies
Miguel Mendez publishes Peregrinos de Aztlan
Matsuo Basho’s Bad Habits is published
Austin Clarke dies Gayl Jones publishes Chile Woman Lucille Clifton publishes An Ordinary Woman Stephen King publishes Carrie: A Novel of a Girl with a Frightening Power Nelson DeMille publishes The Sniper
Anne Sexton dies (October 4) Georgette Heyer dies (July 4)
Rosario Castellanos dies (August 7) Henry Aaron hits his 715th home run, surpassing Babe Ruth’s record and making “Hammerin’ Hank” the all-time home-run leader (April 8)
Donald Goines dies (October 21)
Cyril Connolly dies (November 25)
H. E. Bates dies (January 29)
