Literary Hit Parade: 2000 - 2008
2000
Nobel Prize for Literature
Gao Xingjian, Chinese
Pulitzer Prize
Fiction Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri
Nonfiction Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II, John W. Dower
Poetry Repair, C. K. Williams
Drama Dinner with Friends, Donald Marguiles
National Book Award
Fiction In America, Susan Sontag
Nonfiction In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex, Nathaniel Philbrick
Poetry Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000, Lucille Clifton
National Book Critics Circle Award
Being Dead, Jim Crace
PEN/Faulkner Award
Waiting, Ha Jin
Poet Laureate of the United States
Stanley Kunitz 2000-
Best-Sellers
Fiction The Brethren, John Grisham; The Mark: The Beast Rules the World, Jerry B. Jenkins & Tim Laltaye
Nonfiction Who Moved My Cheese, Spencer Johnson
Notable Books
The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood; Beowulf: A New Translation, Seamus Heaney; Collected Poems of Stanley Kunitz, Stanley Kunitz
Died
Giorgo Bassani, Italian novelist (The Garden of the Finzi-Continis)
Dame Barbara Cartland, British author, queen of romantic fiction
William Maxwell, Fictional editor of The New Yorker
Karl Shapiro Prize-winning American poet
A(lfred). E. Van Vogt, Science-Fiction writer
2001
Nobel Prize for Literature
V. S. Naipaul, British (Trinidad)
Pulitzer Prize
Fiction The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon
Nonfiction Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan, Herbert P. Bix
Poetry Different Hours, Stephen Dunn
National Book Award
Fiction The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen
Nonfiction The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, Andrew Solomon
Poetry Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry, Alan Dugan
PEN/Faulkner Award
The Human Stain, Philip Roth
Died
Douglas Noel Adams, British satirical author (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy & 4 sequels)
Mortimer Jerome Adler, Philosopher, creator (w/Robert Maynard Hutchins) of Great Books program
Jorge Amado, best known Brazilian writer, one of most widely translated
A(rchie) R(andolph) Ammons, American poet
Poul Anderson, American science-fiction and fantasy writer
Gwendolyn Brooks, American poet
Gregory Nunzio Corso, American poet of Beat literary movement
Katharine Meyer Graham, newspaper executive (Washington Post)
Ruth Goetz, American playwright and screenwriter
Clifton Keith Hillgass, creator and 40-year publisher of Cliff's Notes
Pauline Kael, film critic
Anne (Spencer) Morrow Lindbergh, American writer
Robert Ludlum, best-selling American suspense novelist
Peter Maas, American writer (The Valachi Papers 1969, Underboss 1997)
R. K. Narayan, Indian author regarded as greatest 20th cen. Anglophone novelist of India
Frank Gill Slaughter, Physician-novelist (No Greater Love 1985)
Eudora Welty, American short story writer and novelist
2002
Nobel Prize for Literature
Imre Kertesz, Hungarian
Pulitzer Prize
Fiction Empire Falls, Richard Russo
Nonfiction Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution, Diane McWhorter
Poetry Practical Gods, Carl Dennis
National Book Award
Fiction Three Junes, Julia Glass
Nonfiction Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon B. Johnson, Robert A. Caro
Poetry In the Next Galaxy, Ruth Stone
National Book Critics Circle Award
Atonement, Ian McEwan
PEN/Faulkner Award
Bel Canto, Ann Pratchett
Poet Laureate of the United States
Billy Collins, 1941-
Best Sellers
Fiction The Summons, John Grisham
Nonfiction Self Matters, Phillip C. McGraw
Notable Books
Red Rabbit, Tom Clancy; Remnant, Jerry B. Jenkins and Tim LaHaye; The Lovely Bones, Alice Seybold; Prey, Michael Crichton; Skipping Christmas, John Grisham; The Shelters of Stone, Jean M. Auel; Four Blind Mice, James Patterson; Everything's Eventual, Stephen King; The Nanny Diaries, Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus; From a Buick 8, Stephen King; The Beach House, James Patterson and Peter de Jonge; Star Wars: Attack of the Clones, R. A. Salvatore; Nights in Rodanthe, Nicholas Sparks; Answered Prayers, Danielle Steel
Died
Stephen Ambrose, historian and author
Walter Annenberg, publisher and philanthropist
Dee Brown, American historian and novelist
Robert L. Forward, physicist and sci-fi author
Esther Pauline Friedman, author of the Ann Landers column
Adolph Green, American lyricist and playwright
Jan de Hartog, Dutch novelist and playwright
Dorothy Hewett, Australian poet, playwright, and novelist
Laurence Janifer, sci-fi author
June Jordan, American author and teacher
Astrid Lindgren, Swedish children's book author
Spike Milligen, UK comedian, author, and actor
Dudley Moore, UK actor and writer
Jack Olsen, "True Crime" writer
Chaim Potok, American author
Mary Wesley, UK novelist
2003
Nobel Prize for Literature
John Maxwell Coetzee, South African
Pulitzer Prize
Fiction Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides
Nonfiction "A Problem From Hell:" America and the Age of Genocide, Samantha Power
Poetry Moy Sand and Gravel, Paul Muldoon
National Book Award
Fiction The Great Fire, Shirley Hazzard
Nonfiction Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy, Carlos Eire
Poetry The Singing, C.K. Williams
National Book Critics Circle Award
The Known World, Edward P. Jones
PEN/Faulkner Award
The Caprices, Sabina Murray
Poet Laureate of the United States
Louise Glueck, 1943-
Best Sellers
Fiction The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown
Nonfiction The Purpose-Driven Life, Rick Warren
Notable Books
The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Mitch Albom; The King of Torts, John Grisham; Bleachers, John Grisham; Armageddon, Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins; Trojan Odyssey, Clive Cussler; Lies: And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them…, Al Franken
Died
Maurice Blanchot, French philosopher and literary theorist
John Gregory Dunne, American novelist and screenwriter
Howard Fast, American author
Nicolas Freeling, UK crime novelist
Rasul Gamzatov, Russian poet
Francois Geroud, French author and politician
Winston Graham, UK novelist
Glen Grant, American historian, folklorist, and author
Axel Jensen, Norwegian author
Ahmadou Kourouma, author from Cote d’Ivoire
Irv "Kup" Kupcinet, American columnist and TV personality
Manuel Vazquez Montalban, Spanish journalist, poet, and novelist
Norman Panama, American screenwriter and director
George Ames Plimpton, American author and editor
Fred Rogers, American author and TV personality
John Sanford, American author and screenwriter
Carol Shields, Canadian author
Harry Clement Stubbs, American sci-fi author
Fadwa Toukan, Palestinian poet
Hugh Trever-Roper, UK historian and authenticator of the hoaxed Hitler Diaries
Leon Uris, American author
Kathleen Winsor, American author
Stefan Wul, French sci-fi author
2004
Nobel Prize for Literature
Elfriede Jelinek, Austrian
Pulitzer Prize
Fiction The Known World, Edward P. Jones
Nonfiction Gulag: A History, Anne Applebaum
Poetry Walking to Martha's Vineyard, Franz Wright
National Book Award
Fiction The News from Paraguay, Lily Tuck
Nonfiction Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age, Kevin Boyle
Poetry Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965-2003, Jean Valentine
National Book Critics Circle Award
Gilead: A Novel, Marilynne Robinson
PEN/Faulkner Award
The Early Stories: 1953-1975, John Updike
Poet Laureate of the United States
Ted Kooser, 1939-
Best Sellers
Fiction The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown
Nonfiction The Purpose-Driven Life, Rick Warren
Notable Books
The Rule of Four, Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason; Night Fall, Nelson De Mille; My Life, Bill Clinton; America (The Book), Jon Stewart and the Daily Show writers; Eats, Shoots & Leaves, Lynne Truss; The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands, Dr. Laura Schlessinger
Died
Viginia Hamilton Adair, American poet
Thea Astley, Autralian novelist
T.J. Binyon, UK crime writer and Oxford professor
Larry Brown, American author
Ian Cochrane, UK novelist
Jerome Chodorov, American playwright
Jose Giovanni, French director and crime writer
Paul Guimard, French author
Thom Gunn, UK poet
Arthur Hailey, UK author
Joseph Hansen, American mystery author
Anthony Hecht, American poet
Hilda Hilst, Brazilian author
Liddy Holloway, Kiwi actress and author
Nick Joaquin, Filipino novelist, poet, playwright, historian, and journalist
M.M. Kaye, UK author
Alexei Khvostenko, Russian poet, artist, and musician
Jerome Lawrence, American playwright
Jackson Mac Low, American poet
Robert Merle, French author
Ron Milner, American playwright
Czeslaw Milosz, Polish poet and Nobel Prize winner
Dom Moraes, Indian poet and author
Pashwane Mpe, South African novelist
Jorgen Nash, Danish poet and performance artist
Carl Rakosi, American poet
Ryhor Reles, last Belarussian author to write in Yiddish
Alexandra Ripley, American novelist
Francoise Sagan, French novelist
Anthony Sampson, UK journalist and author
Hubert Selby, Jr., American author
Ivan Shamiakin, Belarussian author
Moshe Shamir, Israeli politician and author
Susan Sontag, American author
Mattie Stepanek, American poet
John Toland, American author and historian
Mona Van Duyn, American poet laureate
Walter Wager, American author
Tetsu Yano, Japanese sci-fi author
2005
Nobel Prize for Literature
Harold Pinter, English
Pulitzer Prize
Fiction Gilead, Marilynne Robinson
Nonfiction Ghost Wars, Steve Coll
Poetry Delights & Shadows, Ted Kooser
National Book Award
Fiction Europe Central, William T. Vollmann
Nonfiction The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion
Poetry Migration: New & Selected Poems, W. S. Merwin
National Book Critics Circle Award
The March, E.L. Doctorow
PEN/Faulkner Award
War Trash, Ha Jin
Died
Manolis Anagnostakis, Greek poet
Nadia Anjuman, Afghan poet
Wolfgang Bauer, Austrian playwright
Kenneth Bulmer, UK author
Chris Bunch, American sci-fi author
Edward Bunker, American novelist, actor, and criminal
Stanley Burnshaw, American poet
Michael G. Coney, Canadian sci-fi author
Vine Deloria, Jr., American author and activist
Tory Dent, American poet and essayist
Richard Eberhart, American poet
John Fowles, UK author
Christopher Fry, UK playwright
Rona Jaffe, American novelist
Marjorie Kellogg, American author and playwright
Dennis Lynds, American mystery writer
John Marlyn, Canadian author
Maura Murphy, Irish author
Amrita Pritam, Indian poet and author
A.J. Quinnell, UK author
Judith Rossner, American author
Juan Jose Saer, Argentine novelist
Margaret Scott, Australian poet and author
Mary Lee Settle, American novelist
Robert Sheckley, American sci-fi author
Claude Simon, Nobel-winning French author
David Westheimer, American novelist
Rodney William Whitaker, UK author
J.N. Williamson, American horror author and publisher
2006
Nobel Prize for Literature
Orhan Pamuk (1952- ) Turkey
Pulitzer Prize
Fiction March, Geraldine Brooks
Nonfiction Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya, Caroline Elkins
Poetry Late Wife, Claudia Emerson
Drama (no award)
Governor General's Literary Award
Fiction Peter Behrens, The Law of Dreams
National Book Award
Fiction The Echo Maker, Richard Powers
Nonfiction The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl ,Timothy Egan
Poetry Splay Anthem, Nathaniel Mackey
Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters
Adrienne Rich
Literarian Award
Robert B. Silvers and Barbara Epstein
National Book Critics Circle Award
Criticism The Rest Is Noise, Alex Ross
Poetry Elegy, Mary Jo Bang,
Biography Stanley, the Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer, Tim Jeal
General Nonfiction Medical Apartheid, Harriet Washington
Autobiography Brother, I'm Dying, Edwidge Danticat (1969- )
Fiction The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz
Los Angeles Times Book Award
Fiction A. B. Yeheshua A Woman in Jerusalen
Poetry Frederick Seidel Ooga-Booga
PEN/Faulkner Award
E. L. Doctorow (1931- ) The March
Mary Frances Hobson Prize for Distinguished Achievement in Arts and Letters
Michael Parker (1949- )
Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom
(lifetime) Andrew Motion (1952- ) Appointed May, 1999-
Poet Laureate of the United States
Donald Hall (1928- ) 2006-2007
Best-Sellers
(New York Times No. 1 Best-Sellers)
The Hostage, W. E. B. Griffin
Cell, Stephen King
The 5th Horseman, James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
The House, Danielle Steel
Gone, Jonathan Kellerman
Two Little Girls In Blue, Mary Higgins Clark
Beach Road, James Patterson and Peter de Jonge
At Risk, Patricia Cornwell
The Husband, Dean Koontz
Twelve Sharp, Janet Evanovich
Angels Fall, Nora Roberts
Phantom, Terry Goodkind
Judge & Jury, James Patterson and Andrew Gross Rise
Shine, Anna Quindlen
The Book of Fate by Brad Melzer
The Thirteenth Tale, Diane Setterfield
For One More Day, Mitch Albom
Lisey's Story, Stephen King
Dear John, Nicholas Sparks
Cross by James Patterson
Notable Literary Events
Against the Day (November 21), Thomas Pynchon
Terrorist, John Updike
The View from Castle Rock, Alice Munro
Black Girl / White Girl, Joyce Carol Oates
Moral Disorder, Margaret Atwood
Died
Wendy Wasserstein American playwright
Irving Layton Canadian poet
Bill Cardosa American writer and editor, coined the term "gonzo"
Frederick Busch American author
Hilde Domin German poet and writer
Barbara Guest American poet of the New York School
Alan Shalleck American TV writer and director (Curious George)
Henry Farrell American author and screenwriter (What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?; Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte)
Charles Newman American novelist, editor of Triquarterly Dame Murial Spark British novelist (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie)
Elizabeth Maguire American editor, vice president and publisher Basic Books
Leslie Norris Welsh poet and BYU professor
Stanley Kunitz American Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and former United States Poet Laureate
Peter Viereck American historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Ted Berkman American author, scriptwriter (Bedtime for Bonzo)
Val Guest British film writer and director (The Quartermass Experiment, Casino Royale)
Ruth Gay American author of books on Jewish life
Jay Presson Allen American screenwriter
Madeleine St. John Australian novelist
Patricia Janus American poet
Alan Prior British TV scriptwriter (Z-Cars, Howard's Way)
Nigel Cox New Zealand novelist
David Gemmell British fantasy novelist
Michael Sellers British author (son of Peter Sellers)
Mickey Spillane American author, creator of Mike Hammer
Henry Hewes Saturday Review theatre critic
Silva Kaputiky an American poet
Joseph Stefano American screenwriter (Psycho, co-creator of The Outer Limits)
Colin Forbes English novelist
Philip Empson High British science fiction author
George Balzer American writer for Jack Benny's radio and TV shows
Mary Orr American author whose story, "The Wisdom of Eve, " inspired film All About Eve
Peter Madden Canadian playwright
Joseph Hayes American author (The Desperate Hours)
Gérard Brach French screenwriter (The Fearless Vampire Killers, The Name of the Rose)
Norman Lewis American author on English grammar
Lucilla Andrews British Romance novelist
Jerry Belson American Emmy-winning TV comedy writer (Tracy Ullman, Dick van Dyke)
Richard Gilman American drama and literary critic
Nigel Kneale British scriptwriter (The Quartermass Experiment)
Leonard Schrader American screenwriter (Kiss of the Spider Woman, Mishima)
Ernestine Gilbreth Carey American co-author of Cheaper by the Dozen
Nelson S. Bond American writer Donald Hamilton American spy fiction writer
Chris Hayward American creator of Dudley Do-Right and The Munsters
William Dielhl American author (Primal Fear, Sharky's Machine)
Wilma Dykerman American author and journalist
William Styron American novelist
Betty Friedan feminist author
2007
Nobel Prize for Literature
Doris Lessing (1919- ) United Kingdom
Pulitzer Prize
Fiction The Road, Cormac McCarthy
Non-Fiction> The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, Lawrence Wright
Poetry Native Guard, Natasha Trethewey
Drama Rabbit Hole, David Lindsay-Abaire
Governor General's Literary Award
Fiction Michael Ondaatje Divisadero
National Book Award
Fiction Tree of Smoke, Denis Johnson
Nonfiction Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA Tim Weiner
Poetry Time and Materials: Poems 1997-2005 Robert Hass
Medal for Distinguished Achievement to American Letters
Joan Didion
Literarian Award
Terry Gross
National Book Critics Circle Award
Criticism The Rest is Noise, Alex Ross
Poetry Elegy, Mary Jo Bang
Biography Stanley, the Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer, Tim Jeal General
Nonfiction Medical Apartheid, Harriet Washington
Autobiography Brother, I'm Dying, Edwidge Danticat
Fiction The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz
Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award
Emilie Buchwald
Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing
Sam Anderson
Bollingen Prize in Poetry
Frank Bidart (1939- )
Los Angeles Times Book Award
Fiction: Andrew O'Hagan, Be Near Me
Poetry: Stanley Plumty, Old Heart Poems
PEN/Faulkner Award
Philip Roth Everyman
Mary Frances Hobson Prize for Distinguished Achievement in Arts and Letters
Josephine Humphreys (1945- )
Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom
Andrew Motion (1952- ) Appointed May, 1999-
Poet Laureate of the United States
Charles Simic [born in Yugoslavia] (1938- ) 2007-
Best-Sellers
(New York Times No. 1 Best Sellers):
Plum Lovin', Janet Evanovich
Step On a Crack, James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge
Innocent In Death, J.D. Robb Shopaholic & Baby by Sophie Kinsella
Nineteen Minutes, Jodi Picoult
I Heard That Song Before, Mary Higgins Clark
The Children of the Húrin, J.R.R. Tolkein
Simple Genius, David Baldacci
The 6th Target, James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini
Lean Mean Thirteen, Janet Evanovich
The Quickie, James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge
You've Been Warned, James Patterson and Howard Roughan
Playing For Pizza, John Grisham
World Without End, by Ken Follett
Book of the Dead, Patricia Cornwell
Protect and Defend, Vince Flynn Stone
Cold, David Baldacci
Double Cross, James Patterson
"T" Is For Trespass, Sue Grafton
Notable Literary Events
Critical Companion to Mark Twain: A Literary Reference to his Life and Works (2 vols.) by R. Kent Rasmussen, with Critical Commentary by John H. Davis and Alex Feerst. New York: Facts on File
Harry Potter and the Deadly Hallows by J.K. Rowling. New York: Scholastic Books (final installment of the series)
Died
Tillie Olsen American writer
A.I. Bezzerides, Turkish American writer
Robert Anton Wilson, American novelist, futurist, and conspiracy theory researcher
Tudor Gates, British playwright and trade unionist
Art Buchwald, American humorist and columnist
Bob Carroll. American TV writer (I Love Lucy)
Sidney Sheldon, American author and TV producer (I Dream of Jeannie)
Fred Mustard Stewart. American author (The Mephisto Waltz, Ellis Island)
Benedict Kiety, Irish writer and broadcaster
Elizabeth Jolley, Australian author
Emmett Williams, American poet
Richard S. Prather, American novelist
Lothar-Guenther Buchheim, German author (Das Boot)
Tom Moldvay, American writer of Dungeons and Dragons books and modules
John Sinclair, British English language scholar
Birk Sproxton, Canadian author
Mao Anquing, Chinese author, son of Mao Zedong
Leslie Waller, American author
Dave Martin, British TV writer (Dr. Who, Z-Cars)
Burt Topper, American screenwriter, film director, and producer
Marion Eames, British novelist
Jill McGown, British mystery writer
Stan Daniels, Canadian writer and producer (Taxi, Mary Tyler Moore Show)
A.J. Carothers, American playwright and TV writer
Kurt Vonnegut, American novelist and social critic
Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel, American poet and writer about the Dust Bowl
David Halberstam, American Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author
William Meredith, American poet
Lloyd Alexander, American author of fantasy books
James McClure, South African born author of crime fiction
Jake Copass, American cowboy poet
Peter Viertel, Ger.-born American scriptwriter/novelist (White Hunter, Black Heart), married actress
Deborah Kerr in 1960
Richard Leigh, British author (The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail) sued Random House challenging The DaVinci Code
Ira Levin, American author
Norman Mailer, American author
Peg Bracken, American writer ("I Hate to Cook" Book)
Thomas Yoseloff, American editor (Seven Poets in Search of an Answer) and co-author (The Merry Adventures of Til Eilenspiegel and biography Laurence Sterne, A Fellow of Infinite Jest)
Joseph Viertel, American dramatist and novelist (So Proudly We Hail, To Love and Corrupt)
Philip Freund, American author, poet, critic, Professor Emeritus (Fordham U.)
Liana Burgerss, British translator, literary agent and widow of Anthony Burgess
Laura Archera Huxley, British self-help author and widow of Aldous Huxley
Thomas P. Whitney, American writer on Russian affairs, best known as Alexander Solzenitsyn's English translator Elizabeth Hardwick critic, author, and co-founder of New York Review of Books
Grace Paley, American author (city-New York-stories)
Margaret Avison, Canadian poet
2008
Nobel Prize for Literature
TBA
Pulitzer Prize
Fiction The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar, Wao Junot Diaz
Nonfiction The Years of Extermination, Saul Friedlander
Poetry Time and Materials, Robert Hass; Failure Phillip Schultz
Drama August: Osage County, Tracy Letts, Special Citation Bob Dylan
National Book Award
TBA
National Book Critics Circle Award
Announced in 2009
Los Angeles Times Book Award
Fiction: TBA
Poetry: TBA
PEN/Faulkner Award
Kate Christensen The Great Man
Mary Frances Hobson Prize for Distinguished Achievement in Arts and Letters
Judy Goldman
Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom [lifetime]:
Andrew Motion (1952- ) Appointed May, 1999-
Poet Laureate of the United States
Charles Simic [born in Yugoslavia] (1938- ) 2007-
Best-Sellers
(New York Times No. 1 Best Sellers, with first week as No. 1)
Plum Lucky, Janet Evanovich - January 27, 2008
Duma Key, Stephen King - February 10, 2008
The Appeal , John Grisham- February 17, 2008
Change of Heart by Jodi Picoult - March 23, 2008
Compulsion by Jonathan Kellerman - April 13, 2008
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri- April 20, 2008
Where Are You Now? by Mary Higgins Clark - April 27, 2008
Hold Tight by Harlan Coben - May 4, 2008
The Whole Truth by David Baldacci - May 11, 2008
Sundays At Tiffany's by James Patterson and Gabrielle Charbonnet - May 18, 2008
The Host by Stephenie Meyer - May 25, 2008
Odd Hours by Dean R. Koontz - June 8, 2008
Blood Noir by Laurell K. Hamilton - June 15, 2008
Nothing to Lose by Lee Child - June 22, 2008
Sail by James Patterson and Howard Roughan- June 29, 2008
Fearless Fourteen by Janet Evanovich - July 6, 2008
Notable Literary Events
Ralph Ellison's posthumously published manuscript Three Days Before the Shooting, edited by John F. Callahan
Died
Jim Zwick, American scholar, expert on Mark Twain and imperialism
William F. Buckley, Jr,. American author (spy novels and politics), founder of National Review
Barbara Seaman, American writer, journalist, activist
Richard Baer, American TV scriptwriter
Robin Moore, American author (The French Connection, The Green Berets)
Richard Altick, American professor of English
Phyllis A. Whitley, American mystery writer
George MacDonald Fraser, British novelist and non-fiction writer
Ugo Pirro, Italian screenwriter James Reaney Canadian playwright
Eliot Asin, of American writer (Eight Men Out)
Algis Budrys, American science fiction writer
Matthew Bruccoli, American professor of English, expert on F. Scott Fitzgerald
Bill Dial, American TV writer and producer (WKRP in Cincinnati)
George Garrett, American novelist and poet
Jeff Torrington, British novelist
Elaine Dundy, American writer and actress
Kenneth H. Wood, American author, editor of The Adventist Review
Robert Asprin, American science fiction and fantasy writer
Paula Gunn Allen, Native American poet, novelist, and activist
Andrew Britton, British-born spy novelist
Lawrence Hertzog, American TV writer and producer
Seaman Jacobs, American TV writer
Johnny Byrne, Irish writer (Dr. Who, Space: 1999, All Creatures Great and Small)
Andrew Crozier, British poet
Helen Yglesias, American novelist
Robert Fagles, American professor, poet, and translator of ancient epics
Abby Mann, American screenwriter
E. A. Markham, Monserrat-born British poet and writer
Sir Arthur C. Clarke, Sri Lankan/British science fiction author
Clay Felker, co-founding editor of New York magazine revolutionizing magazine genre, U California magazine journalism program named for him, husband of Gail Sheehy, with him at death
George Carlin, American comedian and humorist (Brain Droppings)
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-The National Book Award for Nonfiction.
-The National Book Award for Poetry.
-National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction.
-The Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Literary history compiled by:
John H. Davis, Ph. D and Literature
Professor of English
Sponsor of Alpha Zeta Rho Chapter, STD
Department of Language and Literature
Chowan University
Murfreesboro, North Carolina