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2000 Terence McKenna, novel writer/mystic, dies at 43
1996 Claude Mauriac, writer, journalist, author, personal secretary to Charles de Gaulle1944 - 1949, co-scripted his father's novel titled Therese Desqueyroux, wrote study of Marcel Proust, dies at 81 1989 Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini offers $1M-$3M bounty on Salman Rushdie's death due to his novel, "Satanic Verses" 1989 5 Pakistani Moslem rioters killed protesting "Satanic Verses" novel 1979 Beginning of James Clavell's novel "Whirlwind" 1978 Frank Herbert completes his novel "Destination: Void" 1967 Lorraine Pearson, born in Romfod, United Kingdom, born Lorraine Samantha Jean Pearson, singer, rocker, writer, member of pop group Five Star, published novel 'Her, Me and Reality", 1989 1960 1st date in James Clavell's novel "Nobel House" 1960 U.S. appeals court rules novel, "Lady Chatterly's Lover," not obscene 1954 Colette, writer, best-known for novel 'Gigi', which became a stage musical, dies at 81 in Paris, France 1951 Novel "Catcher in Rye" by J. D. Salinger published 1947 John Steinbeck's novel "Pearl" published 1943 Thomas Mann begins writing his novel Dr. Faustus 1940 Richard Wright's novel "Native Son" is published 1939 John Steinbeck novel "The Grapes of Wrath" published 1937 Ernest Hemingway novel "To Have and Have Not" published 1936 Margaret Mitchell's novel "Gone with the Wind" published 1935 Hubert Fichte, born in Germany, writer, columnist for magazine konkret, novelist, influenced by Marcel Proust, Hans henny Jahnn, Jean Genet, wrote novel Die Geschichte der Empfindlichkeit, translated as the history of sensibility 1934 U.S. Court of Appeals upheld lower court ruling striking down government's attempt to ban controversial James Joyce novel "Ulysses" 1932 William Faulkner completes his novel "Light in August" 1927 Dieter Noll, born in Riesa, Germany, writer, wrote two-volume novel Die Abenteuer des Werner Holt, over two million copies sold, volume one used as East German school curriculum 1920 Charles Bukowski, Andernach Germany, U.S. writer, Hollywood: A Novel 1914 Claude Mauriac, born in France, writer, journalist, author, personal secretary to Charles de Gaulle1944 - 1949, co-scripted his father's novel titled Therese Desqueyroux, wrote study of Marcel Proust 1909 Leo Malet, born in Montpelier, France, writer, novelist, aligned with Surrealists, friends with Renee Magritte, Andre Breton, famous for crime novel character Nestor Burma 1908 Albrecht Goes, born in Germany, pastor with the German army, writer, novelist, BBC Television in the United Kingdom adapted Unruhige Nacht in 1950, his novel, translated in English as 'Arrow to the Heart' 1903 Georg Rendl, Austria miner/beekeeper/writer, The Bees Novel 1900 Theodore Dreiser's novel "Sister Carrie" is published 1900 Karin Boye, born in Gothenburg, Sweden, born Karin Maria Boye, poet, novelist, co-founder of poetry magazine Spektrum, introduced T.S. Eliot to Swedish readers, best-known novel 'Kallocain' 1900 Bruno Apitz, born in Leipzip, Germany, writer, published poems in Communist newspapers, novel 'Nackt unter Wolfen', Naked Among the Wolves, translated into more than thirty languages 1888 Tarzan, of the Apes, according to Edgar Rice Burroughs' novel 1884 Johannes Elsensohn, Dutch actor and writer, Arie, novel from the Jordan 1879 Fritz Schulz, German law historian, Classical Novel Law 1873 Colette, born in Yonee, France, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, writer, best-known for novel 'Gigi', which became a stage musical 1860 1st "dime" novel issued "Malaesk The Indian Wife of the White Hunter" 1860 1st U.S. "dime novel" published: "Malaseka, The Indian Wife of the White Hunter," by Mrs. Ann Stevens 1853 William Wells Brown publishes "Clotel," 1st novel by black American 1841 1st date in James Clavell's novel Tai-Pan 1789 1st American novel, WH Brown's "Power of Sympathy," is published 1771 Charles Brockden Brown, father of American novel, Wieland 1768 Firm of Johann Buddenbrook founded, in Thomas Mann's novel 1600 1st date in James Clavell's novel Shogun |
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