Literary Chronology

1890:: Katherine Anne Porter (Callie Russell Porter) is born on May 15 in Indian Creek, Texas.
1912:: Mary Lavin is born in East Walpole, Massachusetts.
1922:: José Saramago is born on November 16 in Azinhaga, Ribatejo, Portugal.
1922:: James Hurst is born near Jacksonville, North Carolina.
1935:: Annie Proulx is born in Norwich, Connecticut.
1938:: Raymond Carver is born on May 25 in Clatskanie, Oregon.
1942:: Stuart Dybek is born on April 10.
1943:: James Alan McPherson is born in Savannah, Georgia.
1945:: Thom Douglas Jones is born on January 26 in Aurora, Illinois.
1949:: Haruki Murakami is born on January 12 in Ashiya City, Japan.
1960:: Katherine Anne Porter's "Holiday" is published.
1960:: James Hurst's "The Scarlet Ibis" is published.
1962:: Carolyn Ferrell is born on April 29 in Brooklyn, New York.
1966:: Katherine Anne Porter's Collected Stories wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
1968:: Heidi Julavits is born in Portland, Maine.
1973:: Julie Orringer is born on June 12 in Miami, Florida.
1977:: James Alan McPherson's "Elbow Room" is published.
1979:: James Alan McPherson's Elbow Room wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
1980:: Katherine Anne Porter dies on September 18.
1983:: Raymond Carver's "A Small, Good Thing" is published.
1984:: Stuart Dybek's "Hot Ice" is published.
1984:: Raymond Carver's Cathedral is nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
1988:: Raymond Carver dies on August 2 of lung cancer at his home in Port Washington.
1991:: Haruki Murakami's "The Elephant Vanishes" is published.
1993:: Carolyn Ferrell's "Proper Library" is published.
1993:: Thom Jones's "The Pugilist at Rest" is published.
1996:: Mary Lavin dies in March in Dublin, Ireland.
1998:: Annie Proulx's "Brokeback Mountain" is published.
1998:: Mary Lavin's "In the Middle of the Fields" is published.
1998:: Heidi Julavits's "Marry the One Who Gets There First" is published.
1998:: José Saramago wins the Nobel Prize for Literature.

2000:: Mary Swan's "The Deep" is published.
2003:: Julie Orringer's "The Smoothest Way Is Full of Stones" is published.
2004:: José Saramago's "The Centaur" is published.