Literary Chronology

1865:: Rudyard Kipling (Joseph Rudyard Kipling) is born on December 30 in Bombay, India.
1894:: Rudyard Kipling's "Mowgli's Brothers" is published.
1898:: Stephen Vincent Benét is born on July 22 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
1899:: Elizabeth Bowen is born on June 7 in Dublin, Ireland.
1902:: John Steinbeck is born on February 27 in Salinas, California.
1915:: Saul Bellow is born on June 10 in Lachine, Quebec, Canada.
1928:: Cynthia Ozick is born on April 17 in New York City.
1932:: Stephen Vincent Benét's "An End to Dreams" is published.
1936:: Lars Gustafsson is born on May 17 in Västerås, Sweden.
1936:: Rudyard Kipling dies on January 18 of peritonitis caused by a hemorrhaging gastric ulcer.
1941:: Simon J. Ortiz is born on May 27 and raised on the Acoma Pueblo, near Albuquerque, New Mexico.
1943:: Stephen Vincent Benét dies of a heart attack on March 13 in New York City.
1945:: Robert Olen Butler is born on January 20 in Granite City, Illinois.
1947:: John Steinbeck's "The Pearl" is published.
1954:: Louise Erdrich is born in Little Falls, Minnesota.
1955:: Elizabeth Bowen's "A Day in the Dark" is published.
1964:: Aleksandar Hemon is born in Yugoslavia in Sarajevo, the capitol of what is, in 2005, Bosnia-Herzegovina.
1965:: Mary Yukari Waters is born in Kyoto, Japan.
1968:: John Steinbeck dies on December 20 in New York City, and at his request his ashes are buried in the Garden of Memories Cemetery in Salinas, California.
1973:: Elizabeth Bowen dies of lung cancer on February 22 at her home at Hythe, England.
1974:: Simon J. Ortiz's "The End of Old Horse" is published.
1978:: Saul Bellow's "A Silver Dish" is published.
1981:: Lars Gustafsson's "Greatness Strikes Where It Pleases" is published.
1983:: Cynthia Ozick's "Rosa" is published.
1986:: Louise Erdrich's "Fleur" is published.
1996:: Robert Olen Butler's "Titanic Survivors Found in Bermuda Triangle" is published.
1998:: Aleksandar Hemon's "Islands" is published.
1999:: Samrat Upadhyay's "The Good Shopkeeper" is published.
2001:: Mary Yukari Waters's "Aftermath" is published.
2005:: Saul Bellow dies on April 5 in Brookline, Massachusetts.