The Calendar of Literary Facts contains more than 6,500 events in literary history.
1988 Literary Facts
Barbara Taylor Bradford publishes To Be the Best
George Barker receives the Commonwealth Prize
Nicholson Baker publishes The Mezzanine
Salman Rushdie publishes The Satanic Verses
Kobo Abe publishes The Ark Sakura
Isabel Allende publishes Eva Luna
Lynda Barry publishes The Good Times Are Killing Me
Yasunari Kawabata’s Palm-of-the-Hand Stories is published
Barbara Kingsolver publishes The Bean Trees
Robert Harling publishes Steel Magnolias
Alfred Uhry receives the Pulitzer Prize in drama for Driving Miss Daisy
Toni Morrison receives the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for Beloved
Alfred Uhry publishes Driving Miss Daisy
Edmund White publishes The Beautiful Room is Empty
Rosamunde Pilcher publishes The Shell Seekers
Wendy Wasserstein publishes The Heidi Chronicles
David Adams Richards receives Governor General’s Award in fiction for Nights Below Station Street
Amos Oz publishes Black Box
Maxine Hong Kingston publishes Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book
Naguib Mahfouz receives the Nobel Prize for Literature
William Meredith receives the Pulitzer Prize in poetry for Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems
Donald Hall publishes The One Day
Bharati Mukherjee publishes The Middleman and Other Stories
Tomson Highway publishes The Rez Sisters
Andrew Lloyd Webber receives the Antoinette Perry (Tony) Award for best musical for The Phantom of the Opera
Roberto G. Fernandez publishes Raining Backwards
Kenneth Koch publishes One Thousand Avant-Garde Plays
Thomas Harris publishes Silence of the Lambs
David Henry Hwang receives an Antoinette Perry Award (Tony) for best play for M.Butterfly
An earthquake in Armenia kills 80,000 people
A terrorist bomb destroys Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland
Palestinian resistance to Israeli rule, the “Intifada” begins in the West Bank region of Israel
Anne Tyler publishes Breathing Lessons
Ella Deloria’s novel Waterlily is published posthumously
Peter Carey receives the Booker Prize for Oscar and Lucinda
Cyrus Colter publishes The Amoralists and Other Tales: Collected Stories
Robert Duncan dies
Explore: An African Elegy, Robert Duncan
Charles Willeford dies
Alan Paton dies
Explore: Cry, the Beloved Country, Too Late the Phalarope, Alan Paton, Ha'penny, Symbolism, Context, and Themes in Alan Paton's "The Waste Land"
Michael Shaara dies
Explore: The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara
Robert A. Heinlein dies
Explore: Waldo, Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. Heinlein
Louis L’Amour dies
Explore: Hondo, The Walking Drum, Louis L'Amour
Raymond Carver dies
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