Literary Chronology

1819:: George Eliot is born Mary Ann Evans on November 22 in Arbury, Warwickshire, England.
1872:: George Eliot's Middlemarch is published.
1874:: W. Somerset Maugham is born on January 25 in the British Embassy in Paris.
1880:: George Eliot dies of heart failure on December 22 in London, England.
1912:: William J. Lederer was born on March 31 in New York City.
1918:: Eugene Burdick was born on December 12 in Sheldon, Iowa.
1928:: Anita Brookner is born on July 16 in London, England.
1929:: Imre Kertész is born on November 9 in Budapest, Hungary.
1932:: Joanne Greenberg is born in Brooklyn, New York.
1935:: Carol Shields is born on June 2 in Oak Park, Illinois.
1937:: Thomas Pynchon is born on May 8 in Glen Cove, Long Island, New York.
1940:: James Welch is born on November 18 on the Blackfeet reservation in Browning, Montana.
1943:: Michael Ondaatje is born on September 12 in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
1944:: W. Somerset Maugham's The Razor's Edge is published.
1947:: Salman Rushdie is born on June 19 in Bombay, India.
1947:: Duong Thu Huong is born in Thai Binh, Vietnam.
1952:: Michael Cunningham is born on November 6 in Cincinnati, Ohio.
1953:: Alice McDermott is born on June 27.
1958:: William J. Lederer and Eugene Burdick's The Ugly American is published.
1964:: Joanne Greenberg's I Never Promised You a Rose Garden is published.
1965:: Eugene Burdick dies on July 26.
1965:: W. Somerset Maugham dies on December 16 in France.
1973:: Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow is published.
1974:: James Welch's Winter in the Blood is published.
1981:: Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children is published.
1984:: Anita Brookner's Hotel du Lac is published.
1988:: Duong Thu Huong's Paradise of the Blind is published.
1990:: Imre Kertész's Kaddish for a Child Not Born is published.
1992:: Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient is published.
1993:: Carol Shields's The Stone Diaries is published.
1998:: Alice McDermott's Charming Billy is published.

1998:: Michael Cunningham's The Hours is published.
2003:: Carol Shields dies of breast cancer on July 16 in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
2003:: James Welch dies of a heart attack on August 4.