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The year 1987 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

  • Tom Wolfe was paid $5 million for the film rights to his novel, The Bonfire of the Vanities
    The Bonfire of the Vanities

    The Bonfire of the Vanities is a 1987 novel by Tom Wolfe. The story is a drama about ambition, racism, social class, politics, and greed in 1980s New York City and centers on four main characters: WASP bond trader Sherman McCoy, Jewish Assistant District Attorney Larry Kramer, British expatriate journalist Peter Fallow and black activist...
    , the most ever earned by an author, at the time.


Published books

  • Chinua Achebe
    Chinua Achebe

    Chinua Achebe , born Albert Chin?al?m?g? Achebe on 16 November 1930, is a Nigerian novelist, poet, professor and critic. He is best known for his first novel, Things Fall Apart , which is the most widely read book in modern African literature.....
     - Anthills of the Savannah
    Anthills of the Savannah

    Anthills of the Savannah is a 1987 novel by Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe. A finalist for the 1987 Booker Prize for Fiction, it has been described as the "most important novel to come out of Africa in the [1980s]."...
  • Peter Ackroyd
    Peter Ackroyd

    Peter Ackroyd CBE is an England novelist and biographer with a particular interest in the history and culture of London. His works are comparable to Martin Amis, John Banville and Sebastian Barry....
     - Chatterton (shortlisted for Booker Prize 1987)
  • Douglas Adams
    Douglas Adams

    Douglas Noel Adams was an England author, dramatist and musician. He is best known as the author of the The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series....
     - Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
    Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

    Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency is a humorous fantasy detective novel by Douglas Adams, first published in 1987. It is described on its cover as a "thumping good detective-ghost-horror-who dunnit-time travel-romantic-musical-comedy-epic"....
  • Martin Amis
    Martin Amis

    Martin Louis Amis is an England novelist, essayist, professor, and short story writer, and the son of the novelist and poet Kingsley Amis. His works include such novels as Money , London Fields and The Information ....
     - Einstein's Monsters
  • Gilles Archambault
    Gilles Archambault

    Gilles Archambault is a Canada/Qu?b?cois novelist. He won the Prix Athanase-David in 1981 for his body of work, and a Governor General's Award in 1987 for L'obs?dante ob?se et autres aggressions, a collection of short prose pieces....
     - L'Obsédante obèse et autres agressions
  • Iain Banks
    Iain Banks

    Iain Menzies Banks is a Scottish people writer. He writes mainstream fiction under his birth name Iain Banks, and science fiction as Iain M....
     - Consider Phlebas
    Consider Phlebas

    Consider Phlebas is a military science fiction novel by Scotland writer Iain M. Banks, first published in 1987....
     (as Iain M. Banks) and Espedair Street
    Espedair Street

    Espedair Street is a novel by Scotland writer Iain Banks, published in 1987....
  • Clive Barker
    Clive Barker

    Clive Barker is an England author, film director and visual artist best known for his work in both metaphysical fantasy and horror fiction.Barker came to prominence in the mid-1980s with a series of short stories which established him as a leading young horror writer....
     - Weaveworld
    Weaveworld

    Weaveworld is a novel by Clive Barker. It was published in 1987 and could be categorized as dark fantasy. It deals with a Parallel universe , like many of Barker's novels, and contains many horror fiction elements....
  • Greg Bear
    Greg Bear

    Gregory Dale Bear is an American science fiction and mainstream author. His work has covered themes of galactic conflict , artificial universes , consciousness and cultural practices , and accelerated evolution ....
     - The Forge of God
    The Forge of God

    The Forge of God is a 1987 in literature science fiction novel by Greg Bear. Earth faces destruction when an inscrutable and overwhelming alien form of life attacks....
  • Truddi Chase
    Truddi Chase

    Truddi Chase Chase claimed in her autobiography that she was repeatedly and violently sexual abuse and physical abuse by her stepfather and beaten and neglected by her mother during her childhood and teenage years,....
     - When Rabbit Howls
  • Tom Clancy
    Tom Clancy

    Thomas Leo Clancy Jr. is an United States author, best known for his technically detailed espionage and military science storylines set during and in the aftermath of the Cold War....
     - Patriot Games
    Patriot Games

    Patriot Games is a novel by Tom Clancy. It is chronologically the first book focusing on CIA analyst Jack Ryan , the main character in almost all of Clancy's novels....
  • Hugh Cook
    Hugh Cook (science fiction author)

    Hugh Cook was a Cult following author whose works blend fantasy and science fiction. He is best-known for his epic series The Chronicles of an Age of Darkness....
     - The Wordsmiths and the Warguild and The Women and the Warlords
  • Bernard Cornwell
    Bernard Cornwell

    Bernard Cornwell Order of the British Empire is an England author of historical novels. He is best known for his novels about Napoleonic Wars rifleman Richard Sharpe which were adapted into a series of Sharpe ....
     - Redcoat and Sharpe's Rifles
    Sharpe's Rifles (novel)

    Sharpe's Rifles was the first prequel novel in the series written by Bernard Cornwell. It tells the story of Richard Sharpe and the French Invasion of Galicia, January 1809....
  • L. Sprague de Camp
    L. Sprague de Camp

    Lyon Sprague de Camp, was an USA science fiction authors and fantasy authors and biographer. In a writing career spanning sixty years he wrote over one hundred books, including novels and notable works of nonfiction, such as biographies of other important fantasy authors....
     and Catherine Crook de Camp
    Catherine Crook de Camp

    Catherine Crook de Camp, was an USA science fiction authors and fantasy authors and editor. Most of whose work was done in collaboration with her husband L....
     - The Incorporated Knight
    The Incorporated Knight

    The Incorporated Knight is a fantasy novel written by L. Sprague de Camp and Catherine Crook de Camp, the first book in a sequence of two. Chapters 1-5 first appeared as the short stories "Two Yards of Dragon", "The Coronet", "Spider Love" and "Eudoric's Unicorn" in Flashing Swords!, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and...
  • Jenny Diski
    Jenny Diski

    Jenny Diski in London) is a United Kingdom writer. She won the 2003 Thomas Cook Travel Book award for Stranger on a Train: Daydreaming and Smoking around America Without Interruptions....
     - Rainforest
    Rainforest (novel)

    Rainforest is a novel by Jenny Diski first published in 1987 in literature about a young female English academic whose ambitions are to lead a sane and sensible life and to contribute to human's understanding of the nature but who eventually has a mental breakdown when faced with too many people surrounding her who, driven by desire and l...
  • Bret Easton Ellis
    Bret Easton Ellis

    Bret Easton Ellis is an American novelist and short story writer. He was regarded as one of the so-called literary Brat Pack , which also included Tama Janowitz and Jay McInerney....
     - The Rules of Attraction
    The Rules of Attraction

    The Rules of Attraction is a novel by Bret Easton Ellis published in 1987 and made into a The Rules of Attraction in 2002....
  • James Ellroy
    James Ellroy

    James Ellroy is an United States crime writer and essayist.Ellroy is known for his spartan writing style, which, in its omission of connecting words, has been compared to telegraph communication....
     - Black Dahlia
    Black Dahlia

    Elizabeth Short was an American woman who was the victim of a gruesome and much-publicized murder. Nicknamed the Black Dahlia, Short was found mutilated, with her body severed, on January 15, 1947 in Leimert Park, Los Angeles, California....
  • John Gardner
    John Gardner (thriller writer)

    John Edmund Gardner was an England spy novelist....
     - No Deals, Mr. Bond
    No Deals, Mr. Bond

    No Deals, Mr. Bond, first published in 1987, was the sixth novel by John Gardner featuring Ian Fleming's secret agent, James Bond. Carrying the Glidrose Publications copyright, it was first published in the United Kingdom by Jonathan Cape and in the United States by G....
  • Kaye Gibbons
    Kaye Gibbons

    Kaye Gibbons is an United States novelist. Her 1987 debut, Ellen Foster, received the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, a Special Citation from the Ernest Hemingway Foundation, and the The Louis D....
     - Ellen Foster
    Ellen Foster

    Ellen Foster is a 1987 novel by United States novelist Kaye Gibbons. It was a selection of Oprah's Book Club in October 1997. The book is also a standard text in high school and university courses on American literature in countries around the world....
  • Ken Grimwood
    Ken Grimwood

    Kenneth Milton Grimwood was an United States author who was born in Dothan, Alabama. In his fantasy fiction Grimwood combined themes of life-affirmation and hope with metaphysical concepts, themes found in his best-known novel, the highly popular Replay ....
     - Replay
    Replay (novel)

    Replay is a novel by Ken Grimwood first published by Arbor House in 1987 in literature. It won the 1988 World Fantasy Award....
  • Tom Holt
    Tom Holt

    Tom Holt is a United Kingdom novelist.He was born in London, the son of novelist Hazel Holt, and was educated at Westminster School, Wadham College, Oxford, and The College of Law, London....
     - Expecting Someone Taller
    Expecting Someone Taller

    Expecting Someone Taller is the first humorous fantasy novel by popular British author Tom Holt. It was first published in hardcover in 1987, by Macmillan Publishers in the United Kingdom, and by St....
  • Josephine Humphreys
    Josephine Humphreys

    Josephine Humphreys is an United States novelist.A native of Charleston, South Carolina, which is also the setting of her novels Dreams of Sleep, Rich in Love and The Fireman's Fair, Humphreys was educated at Ashley Hall , studied creative writing with Reynolds Price at Duke University , and went on to attend Yale University a...
     - Rich in Love
    Rich in Love

    Rich in Love is a 1993 drama film based on the 1987 novel with the same name by Josephine Humphreys. The film stars Katherine Erbe, Albert Finney, Kyle MacLachlan, Jill Clayburgh, and Suzy Amis....
  • John Jakes
    John Jakes

    John William Jakes is a writer of fiction. Jakes first sold stories to pulp magazines while still in college in the early 1950s. He published several stories and novels over the next 20 years, many of them fantasy fiction, science fiction and westerns and other sorts of historical fiction, while working in the advertising industry....
     - Heaven and Hell
    Heaven and Hell (novel)

    Heaven and Hell, is a 1987 in literature novel written by John Jakes. It is the third and final part of the North and South . This part focuses on the years of Reconstruction era of the United States, with most of the novel taking place between the years 1865 to 1868....
  • Garrison Keillor
    Garrison Keillor

    Gary Edward "Garrison" Keillor is an United States of America author, storyteller, humorist, columnist, musician, satirist, and radio personality....
     - Leaving Home
    Leaving Home

    Leaving Home is a Drama in two acts by Canadian playwright David French, it premiered at the Tarragon Theatre , May 16, 1972, directed by Bill Glassco , set by Dan Yarhi and Stephen Katz, costumes by Vicky Manthorpe, featuring Maureen Fitzgerald, Frank Moore , Mel Tuck, Sean Sullivan , Lynne Griffin , Liza Creighton and Les Carlson....
  • Stephen King
    Stephen King

    Stephen Edwin King is an United States author of contemporary horror fiction, fantasy fiction and science fiction.Having sold an estimated List of bestselling fiction authors of his books, King is best known for his work in horror fiction, in which he demonstrates a thorough knowledge of the genre's history....
     - Misery, The Tommyknockers
    The Tommyknockers

    The Tommyknockers is a 1987 in literature Horror fiction novel by Stephen King. While maintaining a horror style, the novel is more of an excursion into the realm of science fiction for King, as the residents of the Maine town of Haven gradually fall under the influence of a mysterious object buried in the woods....
    , and The Eyes of the Dragon
    The Eyes of the Dragon

    The Eyes of the Dragon is a book by Stephen King published in 1987 in literature. Previously, it was published as a limited edition hardcover by Philtrum Press in 1984....
  • Penelope Lively
    Penelope Lively

    Penelope Lively CBE is a prolific, popular and critically acclaimed author of fiction for both children and adults. She has been shortlisted three times for the Booker Prize, winning once for Moon Tiger in 1987....
     - Moon Tiger
    Moon Tiger

    Moon Tiger is a 1987 novel by Penelope Lively which spans the time before, during and after World War II. The novel won the 1987 Booker Prize....
  • Ian McEwan
    Ian McEwan

    Ian Russell McEwan, CBE, Royal Society of Arts, Royal Society of Literature, is a Booker Prize-winning England novelist and screenwriter....
     - The Child in Time
    The Child in Time

    The Child in Time is a novel by Ian McEwan. It won the Whitbread Book Awards for that year. It concerns Stephen, an author of children's books, and his wife two years after the kidnapping of their three-year-old daughter Kate....
  • Betty Mahmoody
    Betty Mahmoody

    Betty Mahmoody is an United States author best known for her Pulitzer prize-nominated, best-selling book, Not Without My Daughter which was subsequently made into a film Not Without My Daughter....
     - Not Without My Daughter
    Not Without My Daughter

    Not Without My Daughter is a 1991 in film film depicting the real life escape of United States citizen Betty Mahmoody and her daughter from her husband in Iran....
  • James A. Michener
    James A. Michener

    James Albert Michener was an United States author of more than 40 titles, the majority of which are novels of sweeping sagas, covering the lives of many generations in a particular geographic locale and incorporating historical facts into the story as well....
     - Legacy
    Legacy

    Legacy or legacies may referMeaning: Something someone is remembered as.In computing,* Legacy Family Tree, genealogy software* Legacy system, a term for out-of-date hardware and/or software still in use...
  • Toni Morrison
    Toni Morrison

    Toni Morrison , is a Nobel Prize in Literature-winning American author, editor, and professor. Her novels are known for their epic poetry themes, vivid dialogue, and richly detailed black characters; among the best known are her novels The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon , and Beloved , which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1988...
     - Beloved
    Beloved (novel)

    Beloved is a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction-winning novel by Nobel Prize in Literature Toni Morrison. The novel, her fifth, is loosely based on the life and legal case of the slavery Margaret Garner, about whom Morrison later wrote in the opera Margaret Garner ....
  • Michael Ondaatje
    Michael Ondaatje

    Philip Michael Ondaatje, Order of Canada is a Sri Lankan-born Canadian novelist and poet of Colombo Chetties and Burgher people origin. He is perhaps best known for his Booker Prize-winning novel, which was adapted into an Academy Awards-winning film, The English Patient....
     - In the Skin of A Lion
    In the Skin of a Lion

    In the Skin of a Lion is a novel by Canada/Sri Lankan writer Michael Ondaatje. It was first published in 1987 by McClelland and Stewart. The novel fictionalises the lives of the immigrants whose contributions to building Toronto in the early 1900s never became part of the city's official history....
  • Robert B. Parker
    Robert B. Parker

    Robert B. Parker is an acclaimed United States crime writer. His most famous works are the Spenser series, which achieved a far wider audience due to being dramatized as a television series, Spenser: For Hire, on the American Broadcasting Company network during the late 1980s....
     - Pale Kings and Princes
    Pale Kings and Princes

    Pale Kings and Princes is a Spenser novel by Robert B. Parker. The title is taken from John Keats's poem La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad....
  • Rosamunde Pilcher
    Rosamunde Pilcher

    Rosamunde Pilcher Order of the British Empire is a United Kingdom author of romance novels and mainstream women's fiction. Early in her career she was also published under the pen name Jane Fraser. Pilcher retired from writing in 2000....
     - The Shell Seekers
    The Shell Seekers

    First published in 1987 by Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, The Shell Seekers became one of Rosamunde Pilcher's most famous best-sellers. Set in England, it has the trademarks of all of Rosamunde's best novels....
  • Peter Pohl
    Peter Pohl

    Peter Pohl, born is a Sweden author and former Film director and screenwriter of short films.He has received prizes for several of his books and films, as well as for his entire work....
     - Vi kallar honom Anna
    Vi kallar honom Anna

    Vi kallar honom Anna is a 1987 Swedish language novel by Peter Pohl. It is about Anders, a boy visiting a summercamp who is severely bullied....
  • Terry Pratchett
    Terry Pratchett

    Sir Terence David John Pratchett, Officer of the Order of the British Empire is an England novelist, known for his frequently comical work in the fantasy genre....
     - Equal Rites
    Equal Rites

    Equal Rites is a comic fantasy novel by Terry Pratchett. Published in 1987, it is the third novel in the Discworld series and the first in which the main character is not Rincewind....
     and Mort
    Mort

    Mort is a Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett and also the name of its Mort and Ysabell. Published in 1987, it is the fourth Discworld novel and the first to focus on the Death of the Discworld , who only appeared as a side character in the previous novels....
  • Paul Quarrington
    Paul Quarrington

    Paul Lewis Quarrington is a Canada novelist, playwright, screenwriter, filmmaker and musician. Born in Toronto, Ontario, Ontario, he grew up in the suburb of Don Mills, Ontario and studied at the University of Toronto....
     - King Leary
    King Leary

    King Leary is a novel by Canadian humorist Paul Quarrington, published in 1987 by Doubleday Canada....
  • Edward Rutherfurd
    Edward Rutherfurd

    Edward Rutherfurd is primarily known as a writer of epic historical novels. His debut novel Sarum set the pattern for his work with a ten-thousand year storyline....
     - Sarum
  • José Saramago
    José Saramago

    Jos? de Sousa Saramago, Order of St. James of the Sword is a Nobel Prize for Literature Portugal novelist, playwright and journalist....
     - Baltasar and Blimunda
    Baltasar and Blimunda

    Baltasar and Blimunda is a novel by the Portuguese author Jos? Saramago.It is a love story set in the 18th century with the construction of the Convent of Mafra, now one of Portugal's chief tourist attractions, as a background....
  • Leonardo Sciascia
    Leonardo Sciascia

    Leonardo Sciascia was an Italy writer and politician....
     - Porte aperte
  • Michael Shea
    Michael Shea

    Michael Shea is an United States fantasy, horror, and science fiction author living in California. He is a multiple winner of the World Fantasy Award and his works include Nifft the Lean and The Mines of Behemoth , as well as The A'Rak and In Yana, the Touch of Undying ....
     - Polyphemus
    Polyphemus (book)

    Polyphemus is a collection of Science fiction, Fantasy fiction and Horror fiction stories by author Michael Shea. It was released in 1987 in literature by Arkham House ....
  • Sidney Sheldon
    Sidney Sheldon

    Sidney Sheldon was an Academy Award-winning American writer who won awards in three careers-a Broadway theatre playwright, a Hollywood TV and movie screenwriter, and a best-selling novelist....
     - Windmills of the Gods
    Windmills of the Gods

    Windmills of the Gods is a 1987 thriller novel by American writer Sidney Sheldon....
  • Lucius Shepard
    Lucius Shepard

    Lucius Shepard is an American writer. Classified as a science fiction and fantasy writer, he often leans into other genres, such as magical realism....
     - The Jaguar Hunter
    The Jaguar Hunter

    The Jaguar Hunter is a collection of science fiction and Horror fiction stories by United States author Lucius Shepard. It was released in May, 1987 in literature and was the author's first book published by Arkham House ....
  • Carol Shields
    Carol Shields

    Carol Ann Shields, Order of Canada, Order of Manitoba, Royal Society of Canada was an United States-born Canada author. She is best known for her 1993 novel The Stone Diaries, which won the U.S....
     - Swann: A Mystery
    Swann: A Mystery

    Swann: A Mystery is a novel by the late Carol Shields which details the impact of an obscure Canada poet, Mary Swann, upon four individuals: a feminist literary critic, the poet's biographer, a small-town librarian, and a crusty, brilliant newspaper editor....
  • Michael Slade
    Michael Slade

    Michael Slade is the pen name of Canadian novelist Jay Clarke, a lawyer who has participated in more than 100 criminal cases and who specializes in criminal insanity....
     - Ghoul
  • Danielle Steel
    Danielle Steel

    Danielle Fernande Dominique Schuelein-Steel is an United States romantic novelist and author of mainstream dramas.Best known for her mainstream melodramatic novels, Steel has sold more than 550 million copies of her books ....
     - Fine Things
    Fine Things

    Fine Things is a 1987 romance novel, authored by Danielle Steel. The book was published on February 1, 1987 by Dell....
     and Kaleidoscope
    Kaleidoscope

    A kaleidoscope is a tube of mirrors containing loose colored beads, pebbles or other small colored objects. The viewer looks in one end and light enters the other end, Reflection off the mirrors....
  • Ruth Thomas
    Ruth Thomas

    Ruth Thomas is a children's fiction author. Her debut book The Runaways won the 1988 Guardian Fiction Award.Her books draw on her own experiences as a primary school teacher in London....
     - The Runaways
    The Runaways (book)

    The Runaways is a 1987 novel written by Ruth Thomas about two children, Julia Winter and Nathan Browne, who run away from their individual homes once their teachers and parents find out that they have money that does not belong to them....
  • Scott Turow
    Scott Turow

    Scott Turow is an American author as well as a practicing lawyer. Turow has written eight fiction and two nonfiction books, which have been translated into over 20 languages and have sold over 25 million copies....
     - Presumed Innocent
    Presumed Innocent

    Presumed Innocent, published in 1987, is Scott Turow first novel, which tells the story of a prosecutor charged with the murder of his colleague....
  • Andrew Vachss
    Andrew Vachss

    Andrew Henry Vachss is an United States crime fiction author, child protection consultant, and Lawyer exclusively representing children and youths....
     - Strega
    Andrew Vachss

    Andrew Henry Vachss is an United States crime fiction author, child protection consultant, and Lawyer exclusively representing children and youths....
  • Barbara Vine - A Fatal Inversion
    A Fatal Inversion

    A Fatal Inversion is a 1987 novel by Ruth Rendell, written under the pseudonym Barbara Vine. The novel won the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger in that year and, in 1987, was also shortlisted for the Dagger of Daggers, a special award to select the best Gold Dagger winner of the award's 50 year history....
  • Gene Wolfe
    Gene Wolfe

    Gene Wolfe is an United States science fiction and fantasy writer. He is noted for his dense, allusive prose as well as the strong influence of his Catholic faith, to which he converted after marrying a Catholic....
     - The Urth of the New Sun
    The Urth of the New Sun

    The Urth of the New Sun is a 1987 science fiction novel by Gene Wolfe that serves as a sort of coda to his 4-volume Book of the New Sun series....
  • Tom Wolfe
    Tom Wolfe

    Thomas Kennerly Wolfe, Jr. , known as Tom Wolfe, is a best-selling United States author and journalist. He is one of the founders of the New Journalism movement of the 1960s and 1970s....
     - The Bonfire of the Vanities
    The Bonfire of the Vanities

    The Bonfire of the Vanities is a 1987 novel by Tom Wolfe. The story is a drama about ambition, racism, social class, politics, and greed in 1980s New York City and centers on four main characters: WASP bond trader Sherman McCoy, Jewish Assistant District Attorney Larry Kramer, British expatriate journalist Peter Fallow and black activist...
  • Roger Zelazny
    Roger Zelazny

    Roger Joseph Zelazny was an United States writer of fantasy and science fiction short story and novels. He won the Nebula award three times and the Hugo award six times , including two Hugos for novels: the serialized novel ...And Call Me Conrad and the novel Lord of Light ....
     - Sign of Chaos
    Sign of Chaos

    Sign of Chaos is the third novel in the second Chronicles of Amber series by Roger Zelazny, and the eighth book overall.Plot summary...
  • Gary Paulsen
    Gary Paulsen

    BiographyBorn in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1939, he was raised by his grandmother and aunts. Paulsen used his work as a magazine proofreader to learn the craft of writing....
     - Hatchet
    Hatchet

    Hatchet from the French hachette a diminutive form of the word hache, French for axe.The hatchet is a single-handed striking tool with a sharp blade used to cut and split wood....


Non-fiction

  • Allan Bloom
    Allan Bloom

    Allan David Bloom was an American philosopher, essayist and academic. Bloom championed the idea of 'Great Books' education, as did his mentor Leo Strauss....
     - The Closing of the American Mind
  • Bruce Chatwin
    Bruce Chatwin

    Bruce Charles Chatwin was an England novelist and travel writer....
     - The Songlines
    The Songlines

    The Songlines is a 1986 in literature book written by Bruce Chatwin, combining fiction and non-fiction. Chatwin describes a trip to Australia which he has taken for the express purpose of researching Indigenous Australians song and its connections to nomadic travel....
  • Bill Cosby
    Bill Cosby

    William Henry "Bill" Cosby Jr. is an American comedian, actor, author, television producer and activist. A veteran stand-up performer, he got his start at various clubs, then landed a vanguard role in the 1960s action show I Spy....
     - Time Flies
    Time Flies

    Time Flies was an American straight edge hardcore punk band from Virginia in the late 1990s and the height of the youth crew revival . They shared members with the band Count Me Out , also from Virginia....
  • Andrea Dworkin
    Andrea Dworkin

    Andrea Rita Dworkin was an American Radical feminism and writer best known for her criticism of pornography, which she believed to be linked with rape and other forms of violence against women....
     - Intercourse
    Intercourse (book)

    Intercourse is a radical feminism analysis of sexual intercourse in literature and society, written by Andrea Dworkin. Intercourse is often said to argue that "all heterosexual sex is rape", based on the line from the book that says "violation is a synonym for intercourse."...
  • Paul Kennedy
    Paul Kennedy

    Paul Michael Kennedy Order of the British Empire, DPhil, Fellow of the British Academy , is a United Kingdom historian specializing in international relations and grand strategy....
     - The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
    The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers

    The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict From 1500 to 2000, by Paul Kennedy, first published in 1987, explores the politics and economics of the Great Powers from 1500 to 1980 and the reason for their decline....
    : Economic Change and Military Conflict From 1500 to 2000
  • Nien Cheng
    Nien Cheng

    Nien Cheng , born in Beijing on January 28, 1915, is a Chinese American author who recounted her harrowing experiences of the Cultural Revolution in her memoir Life and Death in Shanghai....
     - Life and Death in Shanghai
    Life and Death in Shanghai

    Life and Death in Shanghai is an autobiography published in November 1987 by Nien Cheng from exile in the United States, and details her six-year arrest during the Cultural Revolution....
  • Salman Rushdie
    Salman Rushdie

    Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie is a British Indian novelist and essayist. He first achieved fame with his second novel, Midnight's Children , which won the Booker Prize in 1981....
     - The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey
  • Peter Wright
    Peter Wright

    Peter Maurice Wright was an England scientist and former MI5 counter-intelligence officer noted for writing the controversial book Spycatcher, , which became an international bestseller with sales of over two million copies....
     - Spycatcher
    Spycatcher

    Spycatcher: The Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence Officer , is a book written by Peter Wright, former MI5 secret service officer and Assistant Director, and co-author Paul Greengrass....


Births


Deaths

  • February 2 - Alistair MacLean
    Alistair MacLean

    Alistair Stuart MacLean Doctor of Letters was a Scotland novel who wrote successful Thriller or adventure stories, the best known of which are perhaps The Guns of Navarone and Where Eagles Dare, both having been made into successful films....
    , British thriller writer, heart attack
  • February 10 - William Rose
    William Rose (screenwriter)

    William Rose was a major United States screenwriter of Great Britain and Hollywood, California films.Although born in Jefferson City, Missouri, after the 1939 outbreak of World War II Rose went to Canada and volunteered to fight overseas with the The Black Watch of Canada....
    , screenwriter
  • February 22 - Andy Warhol
    Andy Warhol

    Andrew Warhola , more commonly known as Andy Warhol, was an United Statesn Painting, Printmaking, and filmmaker who was a leading figure in the Art movement known as pop art....
    , artist, director, writer
  • March 4 - Maria Jolas
    Maria Jolas

    Maria Jolas , born Maria McDonald, was one of the founding members of Transition in Paris, France with her husband Eugene Jolas.Jolas also translated many works including Gaston Bachelard's The Poetics of Space....
    , literary publisher
  • April 4 - C. L. Moore
    C. L. Moore

    Catherine Lucille Moore was an United States science fiction and fantasy writer, as C. L. Moore. She was one of the first women to write in the genre, and paved the way for many other female writers in speculative fiction....
    , science fiction author
  • April 11 - Erskine Caldwell
    Erskine Caldwell

    Erskine Preston Caldwell was an United States author....
    , novelist
  • May 30 - Norman Nicholson
    Norman Nicholson

    Norman Cornthwaite Nicholson OBE, , was an England poet, known for his association with the Cumberland town of Millom. His poetry is noted for its local concerns, straightforwardness of language and inclusion of elements of common speech....
    , poet
  • September 25 - Emlyn Williams
    Emlyn Williams

    George Emlyn Williams Order of the British Empire known as Emlyn Williams, was a Wales dramatist and actor. He was born into a Welsh language-speaking, working-class family in Mostyn, Flintshire, Wales....
    , dramatist
  • September 30 - Alfred Bester, science fiction writer
  • October 3 - Jean Anouilh
    Jean Anouilh

    Jean Marie Lucien Pierre Anouilh was a France dramatist....
    , dramatist
  • October 8 - Roger Lancelyn Green
    Roger Lancelyn Green

    Roger Lancelyn Green was a British biographer and children's writer. He was an Oxford academic who formed part of the Inklings literary discussion group along with C.S....
    , biographer and children's author
  • October 31 - Joseph Campbell
    Joseph Campbell

    Joseph John Campbell was an United States mythologist, writer, and lecturer best known for his work in the fields of comparative mythology and comparative religion....
    , author and expert on mythology
    Mythology

    The word mythology refers to a body of folklore/myths/legends that a particular culture believes to be true and that often use the supernatural to interpret natural events and to explain the nature of the universe and humanity....
  • November 29 - Gwendolyn MacEwen
    Gwendolyn MacEwen

    Gwendolyn Margaret MacEwen was a Canada novelist and poet. During her lifetime she wrote 26 books.MacEwen was born in Toronto, Ontario. Her first poem was published in The Canadian Forum when she was only 17, and she left school at 18 to pursue a writing career....
    , Canadian poet
  • December 1 - James Baldwin
    James Baldwin (writer)

    James Arthur Baldwin was an United States novelist, writer, playwright, poet, essayist and civil rights activist.Most of Baldwin's work deals with racism and human sexuality issues in the mid-20th century in the United States....
    , novelist
  • December 17 - Marguerite Yourcenar
    Marguerite Yourcenar

    Marguerite Yourcenar was a French novelist. She was the first woman elected to the Acad?mie fran?aise in 1980, and the seventeenth to occupy Seat 3....
    , novelist


Awards

  • Nobel Prize for Literature: Joseph Brodsky
    Joseph Brodsky

    Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky was a Russian poet, essayist, and Nobel Prize in Literature. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1991....


Australia

  • The Australian/Vogel Literary Award
    The Australian/Vogel Literary Award

    The Australian/Vogel Literary Award is an Australian literary award for unpublished manuscripts by writers under the age of 35. The prize money, currently $20,000 , is the richest and most prestigious award for an unpublished manuscript in Australia....
    : Jim Sakkas, Ilias
  • C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry
    C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry

    The C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry is awarded annually as part of the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, for a significant selection of new work by a poet published in a book....
    : Lily Brett
    Lily Brett

    Lily Brett is an award-winning Australian novelist, essayist and poet who now lives in New York City. Much of her writing deals with her Jewish family biography and with her feelings about the Holocaust....
    , The Auschwitz Poems
  • Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry
    Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry

    The Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry is awarded annually as part of the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards for a book of collected poems or for a single poem of substantial length published in book form....
    : Philip Hodgins
    Philip Hodgins

    Philip Ian Hodgins was an Australian poet.Philip Hodgins was born in Shepparton, Victoria in 1959 and spent his childhood on his parent's dairy farm at nearby Katandra West....
    , Blood and Bone
  • Mary Gilmore Prize
    Mary Gilmore Prize

    The Mary Gilmore Prize for the best first book of poetry is given to a first book of poetry from the previous two years; prior to 1998 it was awarded annually....
    : Jan Owen
    Jan Owen

    Jan Owen is a contemporary Australian poet....
     - Boy with Telescope


Canada

  • See 1987 Governor General's Awards
    1987 Governor General's Awards

    Each winner of the 1987 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit received $5000 and a medal from the Governor General of Canada. The winners and nominees were selected by a panel of judges administered by the Canada Council....
     for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.


France

  • Prix Goncourt
    Prix Goncourt

    The prix Goncourt is a prize in French literature, given to the author of "the best and most imaginative prose work of the year".Edmond Louis Antoine Huot de Goncourt, a successful author, critic, and publisher, bequeathed his entire estate for the foundation and maintenance of the acad?mie Goncourt....
    : Tahar ben Jelloun
    Tahar Ben Jelloun

    Tahar Ben Jelloun is a Morocco poet and writer. Professor at Tetouan and then in Casablanca. He has lived and worked in France since 1971....
    , La Nuit sacrée
  • Prix Médicis
    Prix Médicis

    The Prix M?dicis is a France literary award given each year in November. It was founded in 1958 by Gala Barbisan and Jean-Pierre Giraudoux. It is awarded to an author whose "fame does not yet match their talent." In 1970 the Prix M?dicis ?tranger, a foreign prize, was added to award a writer each year from around the world....
     French: Pierre Mertens
    Pierre Mertens

    Pierre Mertens is a Belgium French-speaking writer and lawyer who specializes in international law, director of the Centre de sociologie de la litt?rature at the Universit? Libre de Bruxelles, and literary critic with the newspaper Le Soir....
    , Les Éblouissements
  • Prix Médicis International: Antonio Tabucchi
    Antonio Tabucchi

    Antonio Tabucchi is an Italian writer and academic who teaches Portuguese language and literature at the University of Siena, Italy.Deeply in love with Portugal, he is an expert, critic and translator of the works of the writer Fernando Pessoa from whom he drew the conceptions of saudade, of fiction and of the heteronomouses....
    , Nocturne indien


United Kingdom

  • Booker Prize: Penelope Lively
    Penelope Lively

    Penelope Lively CBE is a prolific, popular and critically acclaimed author of fiction for both children and adults. She has been shortlisted three times for the Booker Prize, winning once for Moon Tiger in 1987....
    , Moon Tiger
    Moon Tiger

    Moon Tiger is a 1987 novel by Penelope Lively which spans the time before, during and after World War II. The novel won the 1987 Booker Prize....
  • Cholmondeley Award
    Cholmondeley Award

    The Cholmondeley Award is an annual award for poetry given by the Society of Authors in the United Kingdom. Awards honour distinguished poets, from a fund endowed by the late Marquess of Cholmondeley in 1966....
    : Wendy Cope
    Wendy Cope

    Wendy Cope is an award-winning contemporary England poet. She read history at St Hilda's College, Oxford. She now lives in Winchester with the poet Lachlan Mackinnon....
    , Matthew Sweeney, George Szirtes
    George Szirtes

    George Szirtes , born May 9th 1948, is a Hungary-born poet, writing in English, as well as a translator from the Hungarian language into English....
  • Eric Gregory Award
    Eric Gregory Award

    The Eric Gregory Award is given by the Society of Authors to United Kingdom poets under 30 on submission. The awards are up to a sum value of Pound sterling24000 annually....
    : Peter McDonald, Maura Dooley, Stephen Knight
    Stephen Knight

    Stephen Knight was a British author.He is best known for the books Jack the Ripper: The Final Solution and The Brotherhood . Both books suggest there is a secret cabal of Freemasonry running most aspects of British society, and have been criticised for their blatantly Anti-Freemasonry tone....
    , Steve Anthony
    Steve Anthony

    Steve Anthony is a Canada Television presenter. He gained attention throughout Canada as a MuchMusic host, or "VJ " from May 1987 to November 1995....
    , Jill Maughan, Paul Munden
  • James Tait Black Memorial Prize
    James Tait Black Memorial Prize

    Founded in 1919, the James Tait Black Memorial Prizes are among the oldest and most prestigious book prizes awarded for literature written in the English language and are Britain's oldest literary awards....
     for fiction: George Mackay Brown
    George Mackay Brown

    George Mackay Brown , was a Scotland poet, author and dramatist, whose work has a distinctly Orcadian character. He is considered one of the great Scottish poets of the 20th century....
    , The Golden Bird: Two Orkney Stories
  • James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Ruth Dudley Edwards, Victor Gollancz
    Victor Gollancz

    Sir Victor Gollancz was a United Kingdom publisher, socialism, and humanitarian....
    : A Biography
  • Whitbread Best Book Award
    1987 Whitbread Awards

    Book of the Year...
    : Christopher Nolan
    Christopher Nolan (author)

    Christopher Nolan was an Ireland poet and author, son of Joseph and Bernadette Nolan. He grew up in Mullingar, Ireland, but later moved to Dublin to attend college....
    , Under the Eye of the Clock
  • Sunday Express Book of the Year: Brian Moore
    Brian Moore (novelist)

    Brian Moore was an Irish novelist. He was acclaimed for his descriptions of life in Northern Ireland in the post-war era, in particular his explorations of the intercommunal divisions of The Troubles....
    , The Colour of Blood


United States

  • Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize
    Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize

    The Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize is a major United States literary award for a first full-length book of poetry in the English language.This prize of the University of Pittsburgh Press in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, USA was initiated by Ed Ochester and developed by Frederick A....
    : David Rivard, Torque
  • Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry
    Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry

    The Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry is an annual prize, administered by the Sewanee Review and the University of the South, awarded to a writer who has had a substantial and distinguished career....
    : Howard Nemerov
    Howard Nemerov

    Howard Nemerov was American poet, twice appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1963 to 1964, and again from 1988 to 1990....
  • American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Belles Lettres
    American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medals

    Two American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medals are awarded each year by the academy for distinguished achievement. The two awards are taken in rotation from these categories:...
    : Jacques Barzun
    Jacques Barzun

    Jacques Martin Barzun is a France-born United States historian of history of ideas and cultural history. His areas of expertise are far-ranging including "French and German literature, music, education, ghost stories, detective fiction, language, and etymology."...
  • Frost Medal
    Frost Medal

    The Robert Frost Medal is an award of the Poetry Society of America for "distinguished lifetime service to American poetry." Medalists receive a prize purse of 2,500....
    : Robert Creeley
    Robert Creeley

    Robert Creeley was an American poet and author of more than sixty books. He is usually associated with the Black Mountain poets, though his verse aesthetic diverged from that school's....
     / Sterling Brown
  • Nebula Award
    Nebula Award

    The Nebula Award is an award given each year by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America , for the best science fiction/fantasy fiction published in the United States during the two previous years ....
    : Pat Murphy, The Falling Woman
    The Falling Woman

    The Falling Woman is a 1986 in literature science fiction novel by Pat Murphy . It won the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1987....
  • Newbery Medal
    Newbery Medal

    The John Newbery Medal is a literary award given by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association ....
     for children's literature
    Children's literature

    Children's literature is for readers and listeners up to about age twelve and is often illustrated. The term is used in senses which sometimes exclude young-adult fiction, comic books, or other genres....
    : Sid Fleischman
    Sid Fleischman

    Sid Fleischman , is a longtime resident of Santa Monica, California, California, United States and a Newbery Medal-winning author of children's books....
     The Whipping Boy
    The Whipping Boy

    The Whipping Boy is a Newbery medal-winning Children's literature by Sid Fleischman, published in 1987....
  • Pulitzer Prize for Drama
    Pulitzer Prize for Drama

    The Pulitzer Prize for Drama was first awarded in 1918.From 1918 to 2006, the Drama Prize was unlike the majority of the other Pulitzer Prizes: during these years, the eligibility period for the drama prize ran from March 2 to March 1, to reflect the Broadway 'season' rather than being the calendar year....
    : August Wilson, Fences
  • Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
    Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

    The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction has been awarded since 1948 for distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life....
    : Peter Taylor, A Summons to Memphis
    A Summons to Memphis

    A Summons to Memphis is a 1986 in literature novel by Peter Matthew Hillsman Taylor which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1987 in literature....
  • Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
    Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

    The Pulitzer Prize in Poetry has been presented since 1922 for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author. However, Pulitzer Prize Special Citations and Awards were presented in 1918 in poetry and 1919 in poetry....
    : Rita Dove
    Rita Dove

    Rita Frances Dove is an American poet and author. She was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1993, and received a second special appointment in 1999....
    , Thomas and Beulah
    Thomas and Beulah

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Elsewhere

  • Premio Nadal
    Premio Nadal

    Premio Nadal is a Spain literary prize awarded annually by the publishing house Ediciones Destino. It has been awarded every year on January 6 since 1944....
    : Juan José Saer
    Juan José Saer

    Juan Jos? Saer was one of the most important Argentina novelists of the last fifty years.Born to Syrian immigrants in Serodino, a small town in the Santa Fe Province, he studied law and philosophy at the National University of the Littoral, where he taught History of Cinematography....
    , La ocasión