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Novel
2000 Terence McKenna, novel writer/mystic, dies at 43

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"

1960 1st date in James Clavell's novel "Nobel House"

1960 U.S. appeals court rules novel, "Lady Chatterly's Lover," not obscene

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

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"

1920 Charles Bukowski, Andernach Germany, U.S. writer, Hollywood: A Novel

1903 Georg Rendl, Austria miner/beekeeper/writer, The Bees Novel

1900 Theodore Dreiser's novel "Sister Carrie" is published

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

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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