The Calendar of Literary Facts contains more than 6,500 events in literary history.
1999 Literary Facts
J. M. Coetzee receives the Booker Prize for Disgrace
Maeve Binchy publishes Tara Road
Mary Higgins Clark publishes We’ll Meet Again
John Grisham publishes The Testament
E. Annie Proulx publishes Close Range: Wyoming Stories
Anne Rice publishes Vittorio the Vampire
Salman Rushdie publishes The Ground beneath Her Feet
Mark Strand receives the Pulitzer Prize in poetry for Blizzard of One
John Updike edits and publishes The Best American Short Stories of the Century
The Chinese government bans the Falun Gong sect as well as all books by and about the sect
The U.S. Senate acquits President Bill Clinton of impeachment charges
NATO air-strikes are launched in response to Serbian attacks on ethnic Albanians in Kosovo
Michael Cunningham receives the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for The Hours
Margaret Edson receives the Pulitzer Prize in drama for W;t
Günter Grass receives the Nobel Prize for Literature
J. K. Rowling publishes Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Donald Margulies’s Dinner with Friends is published
Jhumpa Lahiri publishes Interpreter of Maladies
Brian Moore dies
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Iris Murdoch dies
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Andre Dubus dies
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Adolfo Bioy Casares dies
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William H(oward) Armstrong dies
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Shel Silverstein dies
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Alice (Boyd) Adams dies
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Mario Puzo dies
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Sherley Anne Williams dies
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Marion Zimmer Bradley dies
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Joao Cabral de Melo Neto dies
Jean Shepherd dies
Matt Cohen dies
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Joseph Heller dies
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