Literary Chronology

1707: Henry Fielding is born on April 22 in Somerset, England.

1749: Henry Fielding's Tom Jones is published.

1754: Henry Fielding dies on October 8 in Lisbon, Portugal.

1775: Jane Austen is born on December 16 in Steventon, Hampshire, England.

1811: Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility is published.

1817: Jane Austen dies on July 18 in Winchester, England, after a gradual illness.

1847: Bram Stoker is born Abraham Stoker on November 8 in Clontarf, Ireland.

1885: D. H. Lawrence is born David Herbert Richard Lawrence on September 11 in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, England.

1897: Bram Stoker's Dracula is published.

1900: Thomas Wolfe is born on October 3 in Asheville, North Carolina.

1900: Hal Borland is born Harold Glen Borland on May 14 in Sterling, Nebraska.

1912: Bram Stoker dies on April 20 in London, England, of syphilis.

1913: D. H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers is published.

1919: Iris Murdoch is born on July 15 in Dublin, Ireland.

1925: Robert Cormier is born on January 17 in Leominster, Massachusetts.

1929: Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward, Angel is published.

1929: Milan Kundera is born on April 1 in Brno, Czechoslovakia.

1930: D. H. Lawrence dies on March 2 in Vence, France, from tuberculosis.

1931: Sébastien Japrisot is born in Marseille, France.

1933: Reynolds Price is born on February 1 in Macon, North Carolina.

1938: Thomas Wolfe dies on September 15 in Baltimore, Maryland, from tubercular meningitis.

1942: Isabel Allende is on August 2 in Lima, Peru.

1949: Graham Swift is born on May 4 in London, England.

1954: Iris Murdoch's Under the Net is published.

1962: Reynolds Price's A Long and Happy Life is published.

1963: Hal Borland's When the Legends Die is published.

1977: Robert Cormier's I Am the Cheese is published.

1978: Hal Borland dies on February 22 in Sharon, Connecticut.

1983: Graham Swift's Waterland is published.

1984: Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being is published.

1991: Sébastien Japrisot's A Very Long Engagement is published. 1999: Isabel Allende's Daughter of Fortune is published.

1999: Iris Murdoch dies on February 8 in Oxford, England, from complications arising from Alzheimer's disease.

2000: Robert Cormier dies on November 2 in Boston, Massachusetts, from lung cancer.