The Calendar of Literary Facts contains more than 6,500 events in literary history.
2001 Literary Facts
Peter Carey receives the Man Booker Prize for True History of the Kelly Gang
Michael Chabon receives the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Stephen Dunn receives the Pulitzer Prize in poetry for Different Hours
David Auburn receives the Pultizer Prize in drama for Proof
Carl Dennis publishes Practical Gods
Richard Russo publishes Empire Falls
DNA mapping of the human genome advances, as scientists identify the 3.12 billion “base pairs” of DNA that form the foundation of human genes
Auberon Waugh dies
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Gregory Corso dies
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Anne Morrow Lindbergh dies
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A. R. Ammons dies
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Arturo Uslar Pietri dies
Robert Ludlum dies
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Douglas Adams dies
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R. K. Narayan dies
Explore: A Horse and Two Goats, R. K. Narayan
Jason Miller dies
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Mortimer Adler dies
Mordecai Richler dies
Explore: The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, Solomon Gursky Was Here, Mordecai Richler
Eudora Welty dies
Explore: A Worn Path, Death of a Traveling Salesman, Eudora Welty
Poul (William) Anderson dies
Jorge Amado dies
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Members of the Al-Quaeda terrorist network commandeer and crash four commercial airliners, destroying New York’s World Trade Center and part of the Pentagon, killing nearly 3,000 American citizens
An American-led military coalition commences an air-war against Taliban and Al-Quaeda forces in Afghanistan, the first stage in Operation Enduring Freedom
Mongo Beti dies
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Ken Kesey dies
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John Knowles dies
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Juan José Arreola dies
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Leopold Sedar Senghor dies
Explore: Prayer to the Masks, Léopold Sédar Senghor
William X. Kienzle dies
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