Literary Chronology

1819: George Eliot (born Mary Anne Evans) is born on November 22 at South Farm, Arbury, Warwickshire, England.

1860: George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss is published.

1866: H. G. Wells is born on September 21 in Bromley, England.

1871: Theodore Dreiser is born on August 27 in Terre Haute, Indiana.

1875: Thomas Mann is born on June 6 in Lubeck, Germany.

1880: George Eliot dies of a respiratory infection on December 21 in London.

1888: Raymond Chandler is born on July 23 in Chicago, Illinois.

1895: H. G. Wells's The Time Machine is published.

1902: John Steinbeck is born on February 27 in Salinas, California.

1903: Evelyn Waugh is born on October 28 in Hampstead, London, England.

1912: Thomas Mann's Death in Venice is published.

1920: Frank Herbert is born on October 8 in Tacoma, Washington.

1925: Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy is published.

1935: Thomas Keneally is born on October 7 in Sydney, Australia.

1937: John Steinbeck's The Red Pony is published.

1938: Evelyn Waugh's Scoop is published.

1939: Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep is published.

1945: Theodore Dreiser dies of a heart attack on December 28 in Los Angeles.

1946: H. G. Wells dies on August 13 in London, England.

1948: Pearl Cleage is born on December 7 in Springfield, Massachusetts.

1951: Oscar Hijuelos is born on August 24 in New York City.

1955: Thomas Mann dies of phlebitis on August 12 in Zurich, Switzerland.

1957: Peter Høeg is born on May 17 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

1959: Raymond Chandler dies on March 26 in La Jolla, California, after a bout of pneumonia following a period of heavy drinking.

1966: Evelyn Waugh dies on April 10 in Combe Florey, Somerset, England.

1966: Sherman Alexie (born Sherman Joseph Alexie, Jr.) is born on October 7 in Wellpinit on the Spokane Reservation in eastern Washington.

1968: John Steinbeck dies of a heart attack on December 20 in New York City.

1972: Frank Herbert's Soul Catcher is published.

1982: Thomas Keneally's Schindler's List is published.

1986: Frank Herbert dies of complications following cancer surgery on February 11 in Madison, Wisconsin.

1989: Oscar Hijuelos's The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love is published.

1990: Oscar Hijuelos receives the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love.

1993: Peter Høeg's Smilla's Sense of Snow is published.

1993: Sherman Alexie's The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven is published.

1997: Tessa Bridal's The Tree of Red Stars is published.

1997: Pearl Cleage's What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day is published.