The Calendar of Literary Facts contains more than 6,500 events in literary history.
1996 Literary Facts
Patricia Cornwell publishes From Potter’s Field
Stanley L. Elkin is posthumously awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction for Mrs. Ted Bliss
Ken Follett publishes The Third Twin
Richard Ford receives the Pulitzer Prize in fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award in fiction for Independence Day
Dick Francis receives the Edgar Award for Best Novel for Come to Grief and is named a Mystery Writers of America Grand Master
Robert Hass receives the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry for Sun under Wood
Seamus Heaney receives the Whitbread Book of the Year Award for The Spirit Level
Stephen King publishes The Green Mile
John Lanchester receives the Whitbread Award for First Novel for The Debt to Pleasure
Jonathan Larson is posthumously awarded the Pulitzer Prize in drama for Rent
Terry McMillan publishes How Stella Got Her Groove Back
Jack Miles receives the Pulitzer Prize for Biography/Autobiography for God: A Biography
Danielle Steel publishes The Gift
Graham Swift receives the Booker Prize for Last Orders
Wislawa Szymborska receives the Nobel Prize for Literature
Purported evidence of primitive life is found on a meteorite from Mars
A sheep named Dolly becomes the first mammal to be cloned from the cells of an adult animal
Jorie Graham receives the Pulitzer Prize in poetry for The Dream of the Unified Field
Lisel Mueller publishes Allive Together: New and Selected Poems
Helen Fielding publishes Bridget Jones’s Diary
Dorothy Livesay dies
Andre Dubus publishes Dancing after Hours: Stories
Bienvenido Santos dies
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Norman MacCaig dies
Jonathan Larson dies, the day before the off-Broadway opening of his rock opera Rent
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Joseph Brodsky dies
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Caroline Blackwood dies
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Sinclair Ross dies
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Marguerite Duras dies
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Odysseus Elytis dies
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Mary Lavin dies
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Richard Condon dies
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Erma Bombeck dies
George Mackay Brown dies
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Joseph Mitchell dies
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Eugenia Price dies
Timothy Leary dies
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Lonne Elder III dies
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George Starbuck dies
Shusaku Endo dies
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Sheldon Vanauken dies
José Donoso dies
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Carl Sagan dies
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