Literary Chronology

1600:

Pedro Calderón de la Barca is born on January 17, 1600 in Madrid, Spain.

1635:

Pedro Calderón de la Barca's Life Is a Dream is published.

1681:

Pedro Calderón de la Barca dies on May 25, 1681 in Madrid, Spain.

1920:

Reginald Rose is born on December 10, 1920, in New York, New York.

1926:

Dario Fo is born on March 24, 1926 in San Giano, Italy.

1938:

D. L. Coburn is born on August 4, 1938 in East Baltimore, Maryland.

1943:

Dolores Prida is born on September 5, 1943 in Caibarién, Cuba.

1949:

Lee Blessing is born on October 4, 1949 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

1949:

Ernest Thompson is born on November 6, 1949 in Bellows Falls, Vermont.

1950:

John Patrick Shanley is born in 1950 in New York, New York.

1953:

Eve Ensler is born on May 25, 1953 in New York, New York.

1954:

Reginald Rose's Twelve Angry Men is published.

1956:

Ann-Marie MacDonald is born in 1956 on an army base in West Germany.

1960:

Jonathan Larson is born on February 4, 1960 in Mount Vernon, New York.

1963:

Kenneth Lonergan is born in 1963 in New York, New York.

1965:

Rebecca Gilman is born in 1965 in Trussville, Alabama.

1970:

Dario Fo's Accidental Death of an Anarchist is published.

1976:

D. L. Coburn's The Gin Game is published.

1977:

Dolores Prida's Beautiful Señoritas is published.

1978:

Ernest Thompson's On Golden Pond is published.

1978:

D. L. Coburn is awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Drama for The Gin Game.

1985:

Lee Blessing's Eleemosynary is published.

1988:

Ann-Marie MacDonald's Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) is published.

1996:

Eve Ensler's Necessary Targets is published.

1996:

Jonathan Larson's Rent is published.

1996:

Jonathan Larson dies of an undiagnosed aortic aneurysm on January 25, 1996.

1996:

Jonathan Larson is posthumously awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Drama for Rent.

1997:

Dario Fo is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

1998:

Kenneth Lonergan's This Is Our Youth is published.

2001:

Rebecca Gilman's Blue Surge is published.

2002:

Reginald Rose dies on April 19, 2002 in Norwalk, Connecticut.

2003:

Doug Wright's I Am My Own Wife is published.

2004:

John Patrick Shanley's Doubt is published.

2004:

Doug Wright is awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Drama for I Am My Own Wife.

2005:

John Patrick Shanley is awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Drama for Doubt.