Calendar of Literary Facts
1977
- Jaroslav Seifert publishes Morovy Sloup
- Timothy Findley receives the Governor General’s Literary Award in fiction in English for The Wars
- Marilyn French publishes The Women’s Room
- George F. Walker publishes Zastrozzi: The Master of Discipline
- Simon J. Ortiz publishes A Good Journey
- Bessie Head publishes The Collector of Treasures and Other Botswana Village Tales
- D’Arcy McNickle dies
- Eugenia Price publishes Maria
- Howard Nemerov publishes The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov
- Robert Coover publishes The Public Burning
- Vladimir Nabokov dies
- John Le Carré publishes Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
- Stephen R. Donaldson publishes The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant: The Unbeliever
- Robin Cook publishes Coma
- Sheldon Vanauken publishes A Severe Mercy
- The television miniseries Roots garners the largest audience in TV history
- Michael Cristofer receives the Pulitzer Prize in drama for The Shadow Box
- Timothy Findley publishes The Wars
- Ursula K. Le Guin publishes The Earthsea Trilogy
- Colleen McCullough publishes The Thorn Birds
- Carl Sagan publishes The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
- Dave Smith publishes Cumberland Station
- Edward Brathwaite publishes Mother Poem
- Woody Allen is awarded Academy Awards for best director and best original screenplay for Annie Hall
- Leslie Marmon Silko publishes Ceremony
- Paul Scott receives the Booker Prize for Staying On
- Gary Soto publishes The Elements of San Joaquin
- John Saul publishes Suffer the Children
- Sam Shepard receives Obie Award for Curse of the Starving Class
- Ralph McInerny introduces his fictional detective Father Dowling, in the novel Her Death of Cold
- Terry Brooks publishes The Sword of Shannara
- Ntozake Shange receives Obie Award for for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
- Vicente Aleixandre receives the Nobel Prize for Literature
- George Ryga publishes Ploughmen of the Glacier
- Marcio Souza publishes Galvez, Imperador do Acre (Emperor of the Amazon)
- Bruce Chatwin publishes In Patagonia
- E. F. Schumacher dies (September 4)
- MacKinlay Kantor dies (October 11)
- Robert Lowell dies (September 12)
- Anaïs Nin dies (January 14)
- Sir Terence Rattigan dies (November 30)
