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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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