Literary Facts

Literary Facts - 2000

Nelson DeMille publishes The Lion’s Game
The booming U.S. economy begins to slow after nearly a decade of growth; many dot-com businesses fail
Donald Margulies receives the Pulitzer Prize in drama for Dinner with Friends
C. K. Williams receives the Pulitzer Prize in poetry for Repair
Gao Xingjian receives the Nobel Prize for Literature
J. K. Rowling publishes Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Margaret Atwood receives the Booker Prize for The Blind Assassin
Martin Amis publishes Experience
Yearlong fears of global disaster because of the “Y2K bug” end on New Years Day, with little computer-related disruption of power and services worldwide (January 1)
Anne Hebert dies. (Explore: Héloïse, Kamouraska, Anne Hébert) (January 22)
Alex Comfort dies. (Explore: Alex(ander) Comfort) (March 26)
A. W. Purdy dies. (Explore: A(lfred) W(ellington) Purdy) (April 21)
Penelope Fitzgerald dies. (Explore: The Gate of Angels, The Blue Flower, Penelope Fitzgerald, Can there be any description of any sort to help me understand the story "At...) (April 28)
Karl Shapiro dies. (Explore: Karl Shapiro, Auto Wreck, A Cut Flower, Elegy for a Dead Soldier) (May 14)
Barbara Cartland dies. (Explore: Who was Barbara Cartland?) (May 21)
Stanley Kunitz is appointed Poet Laureate of the United States, for a term beginning in October, 2000. (Explore: The War Against the Trees, Father and Son, Stanley Kunitz) (August 1)
Dudley Randall dies. (Explore: Dudley Randall, Ballad of Birmingham) (August 5)
Yehuda Amichai dies. (Explore: Not Like a Cypress, Yehuda Amichai, Open Closed Open) (September 25)
R. S. Thomas dies. (Explore: The Airy Tomb, Ninetieth Birthday, R. S. Thomas) (September 25)
Robert Cormier dies. (Explore: The Chocolate War, In the Middle of the Night, Robert Cormier) (November 2)
Malcolm Bradbury dies. (Explore: Eating People Is Wrong, Rates of Exchange, Malcolm Bradbury) (November 27)
Gwendolyn Brooks dies. (Explore: The Poetry of Brooks, A Street in Bronzeville, Gwendolyn Brooks) (December 3)