Calendar of Literary Facts
2004
- William Manchester dies (June 1)
- Joan (Delano) Aiken dies (January 4)
- Edward P. Jones receives the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for The Known World (April 5)
- William Taubman receives the Pulitzer Prize in biography for Khrushchev: The Man and His Era (April 5)
- Steven Hahn receives the Pulitzer Prize in history for A Nation under Our Feet (April 5)
- Franz Wright receives the Pulitzer Prize in poetry for Walking to Martha’s Vineyard (April 5)
- Doug Wright receives the Pulitzer Prize in drama for I Am My Own Wife (April 5)
- Donald Justice dies (August 6)
- Elfriede Jelinek receives the Nobel Prize for Literature (October 8)
- Jacques Derrida dies (October 8)
- Alexandra Ripley dies (January 10)
- Czesław Miłosz dies (August 14)
- Alan Hollinghurst receives the Man Booker Prize for The Line of Beauty (October 19)
- Françoise Sagan dies (September 24)
- Arthur Hailey dies (November 24)
- Susan Sontag dies (December 27)
- Mulk Raj Anand dies (September 28)
