The Calendar of Literary Facts contains more than 6,500 events in literary history.

Ossie Davis dies

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Arthur Miller dies

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Hunter S. Thompson dies

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G. Cabrera Infante dies

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Robert Creeley dies

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Marilynne Robinson receives the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for Gilead

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John Patrick Shanley receives the Pulitzer Prize in drama for Doubt: A Parable

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David Hackett Fischer receives the Pulitzer Prize in history for Washington’s Crossing

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Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan receive the Pulitzer Prize in biography for De Kooning: An American Master

Ted Kooser receives the Pulitzer Prize in poetry for Delights & Shadows

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Saul Bellow dies

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Frank Conroy dies

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Augusto Roa Bastos dies

Richard Eberhart dies

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Shana Alexander dies

Shelby Foote dies

Evan Hunter dies

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M. Scott Peck dies

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August Wilson dies

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John Banville receives the Man Booker Prize for The Sea

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Harold Pinter wins the Nobel Prize for Literature

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John Fowles dies

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