Calendar of Literary Facts
1995
- Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated in Jerusalem
- Tom Clancy publishes Op Center
- Clive Cussler publishes Shock Wave
- Umberto Eco publishes The Island of the Day Before
- Jorie Graham publishes The Dream of the Unified Field: Poems, 1974-1994
- John Grisham publishes The Chamber
- Robert Hass is named U.S. Poet Laureate
- Seamus Heaney receives the Nobel Prize for Literature
- Tony Hillerman publishes Finding Moon
- Philip Levine receives the Pulitzer Prize in poetry for The Simple Truth
- Rosamunde Pilcher publishes Coming Home
- Philip Roth receives the National Book Critics Circle Award and National Book Award in Fiction for Sabbath’s Theater
- Sidney Sheldon publishes Morning, Noon and Night
- Amy Tan publishes The Hundred Secret Senses
- The Galileo deep-space probe reaches Jupiter
- The federal building in Oklahoma City is destroyed by a car-bomb which kills 168 people
- Representative of Croatia, Serbia, and Bosnia sign a peace accord in Dayton, Ohio
- James Finn Garner publishes Politically Correct Bedtime Stories
- Horton Foote receives the Pulitzer Prize in drama for The Young Man from Atlanta
- Edwidge Danticat publishes Krik? Krak!
- George Mackay Brown publishes The Wreck of the Archangel
- Kate Atkinson receives the Whitbread Book of the Year Award for Behind the Scenes at the Museum
- Stanley L. Elkin’s novel Mrs. Ted Bliss is published posthumously
- Pat Barker receives the Booker Prize for The Ghost Road
- Carol Shields receives Pulitzer Prize in fiction for Stone Diaries
- Robertson Davies dies (December 2)
- Ricardo Sanchez dies (September 3)
- Earle Birney dies (September 3)
- Patricia Highsmith dies (February 5)
- John Patrick dies (November 7)
- James Merrill dies (February 7)
- Brigid Brophy dies (August 7)
- Paul Horgan dies (March 8)
- Toni Cade Bambara dies (December 9)
- Andrew Lytle dies (December 12)
- Henry Roth dies (October 13)
- May Sarton dies (July 16)
- Sir Stephen Spender dies (July 16)
- Albert Hackett dies (March 16)
- Conceived by Louis Farrakhan, the Million Man March is held in Washington, D.C. (October 16)
- Charles Gordone dies (November 17)
- Sidney Kingsley dies (March 20)
- Robert Bolt dies (February 20)
- Kingsley Amis dies (October 22)
- James Herriot (James Alfred Wight) dies (February 23)
- John Brunner dies (August 25)
- Stanley L. Elkin dies (May 31)
