2012 in literature
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The year 2012 will involve some significant events and new books.

Literature

  • Edmund White
    Edmund White
    Edmund Valentine White III is an American author and literary critic. He is a member of the faculty of Princeton University's Program in Creative Writing.- Life and work :...

     - Jack Holmes and His Friend (January 25)
  • Dan Chaon
    Dan Chaon
    Dan Chaon is an American writer.His first novel was You Remind Me of Me . His short-story collections Fitting Ends and Among the Missing were both well-received; the latter was a finalist for a National Book Award and was also named one of the year's ten best books by the American Library...

     - Stay Awake (February 7)
  • Peter Carey - The Chemistry of Tears (May 15)
  • Toni Morrison
    Toni Morrison
    Toni Morrison is a Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, editor, and professor. Her novels are known for their epic themes, vivid dialogue, and richly detailed characters. Among her best known novels are The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon and Beloved...

     - Home (May)
  • Marisha Pessl
    Marisha Pessl
    Marisha Pessl is an American writer best known for her debut novel, Special Topics in Calamity Physics.Pessl was born in Clarkston, Michigan, to Klaus, an Austrian engineer for General Motors, and Anne, an American homemaker. Pessl's parents divorced when she was three, and she moved to Asheville,...

     - Night Film (August 21)
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