Literary Chronology

1851: Kate Chopin (born Katherine O'Flaherty) is born on February 8 in St. Louis, Missouri.

1874: W. Somerset Maugham is born on January 25 at the British Embassy in Paris.

1889: Kate Chopin's "A Point at Issue!" is published.

1899: Jorge Luis Borges is born on August 24 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

1899: Ernest Hemingway is born on July 21 in Oak Park, Illinois.

1904: Kate Chopin dies of a cerebral hemorrhage on August 22 in St. Louis.

1910: Paul Bowles is born on December 30 in New York City.

1919: Jerome David (J. D.) Salinger is born on New Year's Day in New York City.

1920: Isaac Asimov is born on January 2 in Russia.

1921: W. Somerset Maugham's "The Fall of Edward Barnard" is published.

1927: Ernest Hemingway's "The Killers" is published.

1931: Donald Barthelme is born on April 7 in Philadelphia.

1937: Mohamed El-Bisatie is born on November 19 in the Nile Delta in a place called el-Gamalia, Dakahlia, in Sharqiya Province, Egypt, a setting that dominates most of El-Bisatie's writings.

1937: Marlene Reed Wetzel is born on April 5.

1938: Joyce Carol Oates is born on June 16 in Millersport, New York.

1941: Anne Tyler is born on October 25 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

1941: Isaac Asimov's "Nightfall" is published.

1945: Jorge Luis Borges's "The Aleph" is published.

1948: J. D. Salinger's "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" is published.

1951: Anne Devlin is born to a Catholic family in Belfast.

1956: Ha Jin (born Jin Xuefei) is born on February 21 in Liaoning, a province in northeast China.

1961: Ernest Hemingway commits suicide by shooting himself at his home in Ketchum, Idaho.

1962: Pam Houston is born in New Jersey.

1965: W. Somerset Maugham dies on December 16 at his villa on the French Riviera at the age of ninety-one.

1967: Joyce Carol Oates's "Four Summers" is published.

1968: Donald Barthelme's "The Indian Uprising" is published.

1976: Paul Bowles's "The Eye" is published.

1977: Anne Tyler's "Average Waves in Unprotected Waters" is published.

1986: Anne Devlin's "Naming the Names" is published.

1986: Jorge Luis Borges dies of liver cancer on June 14.

1989: Donald Barthelme dies of cancer on July 23 in Houston.

1992: Isaac Asimov dies of heart and kidney failure on April 6.

1994: Mohamed El-Bisatie's "A Conversation from the Third Floor" is published.

1998: Pam Houston's "The Best Girlfriend You Never Had" is published.

1999: Ha Jin's "In the Kindergarten" is published.

1999: Paul Bowles dies of a heart attack on November 18 in Tangier.

2000: Marlene Reed Wetzel's "A Map of Tripoli, 1967" is published.