Literary Chronology

1882: James Joyce is born on February 2 in Dublin, Ireland.

1894: James Thurber is born on December 8 in Columbus, Ohio.

1901: Zora Neale Hurston is born on January 7 in Eatonville, Florida.

1903: Morley Callaghan is born on February 22 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

1911: Bienvenido Santos is born on March 22 in Tondo, Manila, the Philippines.

1914: James Joyce's "Eveline" is published.

1923: Nadine Gordimer is born on November 20 in Springs, South Africa.

1925: Flannery O'Connor (born Mary Flannery O'Connor) is born on March 25 in Savannah, Georgia.

1926: Zora Neale Hurston's "Sweat" is published.

1931: Alice Munro is born on July 10 in Wingham, Ontario, Canada.

1932: John Updike is born on March 18 in Reading, Pennsylvania.

1933: James Thurber's "The Night the Ghost Got In" is published.

1936: Morley Callaghan's "All the Years of Her Life" is published.

1941: James Joyce dies on January 13 in Zurich.

1944: Alejandro Morales is born on October 14 in Montebello, California.

1948: T. Coraghessan Boyle is born on December 2 in Peekskill, New York.

1949: Jane Smiley is born on September 26 in Los Angeles, California.

1954: Flannery O'Connor's "A Circle in the Fire" is published.

1957: Lorrie Moore is born on February 13 in Glens Falls, New York.

1960: Zora Neale Hurston dies in a Florida welfare home.

1961: James Thurber dies on November 2.

1964: Flannery O'Connor dies on August 3 in Milledgeville, Georgia.

1967: Jhumpa Lahiri is born in London, England.

1968: John Updike's "The Slump" is published.

1977: Bienvenido Santos's "Immigration Blues" is published.

1982: John Updike receives the Pulitzer Prize for literature.

1986: Alejandro Morales's "The Curing Woman" is published.

1987: Jane Smiley's "Long Distance" is published.

1989: Lorrie Moore's "You're Ugly, Too" is published.

1989: Nadine Gordimer's "The Ultimate Safari" is published.

1990: Morley Callaghan dies on August 25.

1990: Alice Munro's "Meneseteung" is published.

1991: Nadine Gordimer receives the Nobel Prize for literature.

1991: John Updike receives the Pulitzer Prize for literature.

1992: Jane Smiley receives the Pulitzer Prize for literature.

1996: Bienvenido Santos dies on January 7 at his home in Albay, the Philippines.

1998: Jhumpa Lahiri's "A Temporary Matter" is published.

1998: T. Coraghessan Boyle's "The Underground Gardens" is published.

2000: Jhumpa Lahiri receives the Pulitzer Prize for literature.