Calendar of Literary Facts
1992
- Sherman Alexie publishes I Would Steal Horses
- Friedrich A. von Hayek dies
- Garry Wills publishes Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America
- The Maastricht Treaty is signed, forming the European Union
- A riot erupts in South Central Los Angeles after the police officers tried for the beating of Rodney King are acquitted
- The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is signed
- South African laws are reformed to give equal legal rights to blacks and “coloureds”
- Warfare erupts in Somalia when U.N. troops attempt to ensure the fair distribution of food sent to relieve a famine
- Robert Schenkkan receives the Pulitzer Prize in drama for The Kentucky Cycle
- James Tate receives the Pulitzer Prize in poetry for Selected Poems
- James Tate publishes Selected Poems
- Louise Gluck publishes The Wild Iris
- Michael Ondaatje receives the Booker Prize for The English Patient
- Robert James Waller publishes The Bridges of Madison County
- Gore Vidal publishes Live from Golgotha: The Gospel According to Gore Vidal
- Michael Ondaatje publishes The English Patient
- Thomas King publishes A Coyote Columbus Story
- Thomas King receives the Governor General’s Literary Award for A Coyote Columbus Story
- Michael Crichton publishes Rising Sun
- Robert J. Conley publishes Mountain Windsong: A Novel of the Trail of Tears
- Jane Smiley receives the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for A Thousand Acres
- David Storey publishes Plays 1
- Robert Olen Butler publishes A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain: Stories
- Neil Simon’s Lost in Yonkers is produced
- Tony Kushner’s Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, Part One: Millennium Approaches is produced
- Derek Walcott receives the Nobel Prize for Literature
- Toni Morrison publishes Jazz
- Terry McMillan publishes Waiting to Exhale
- Carol Moseley Braun, Democratic candidate from Illinois, becomes the first black woman to be elected to the U.S. Senate (November 3)
- Isaac Asimov dies (April 6)
- Alex Haley dies (February 10)
- Caroline Miller dies (July 12)
- Angela Carter dies (February 16)
- Audre Lorde dies (November 17)
- Rosemary Sutcliff dies (July 23)
- Satyajit Ray dies (April 23)
