Literary Chronology

1819:     George Eliot (born Mary Anne Evans) is born on November 22 at South Farm, Arbury, Warwickshire, England.

1860:     George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss is published.

1866:     H. G. Wells is born on September 21 in Bromley, England.

1871:     Theodore Dreiser is born on August 27 in Terre Haute, Indiana.

1875:     Thomas Mann is born on June 6 in Lubeck, Germany.

1880:     George Eliot dies of a respiratory infection on December 21 in London.

1888:     Raymond Chandler is born on July 23 in Chicago, Illinois.

1895:     H. G. Wells's The Time Machine is published.

1902:     John Steinbeck is born on February 27 in Salinas, California.

1903:     Evelyn Waugh is born on October 28 in Hampstead, London, England.

1912:     Thomas Mann's Death in Venice is published.

1920:     Frank Herbert is born on October 8 in Tacoma, Washington.

1925:     Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy is published.

1935:     Thomas Keneally is born on October 7 in Sydney, Australia.

1937:     John Steinbeck's The Red Pony is published.

1938:     Evelyn Waugh's Scoop is published.

1939:     Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep is published.

1945:     Theodore Dreiser dies of a heart attack on December 28 in Los Angeles.

1946:     H. G. Wells dies on August 13 in London, England.

1948:     Pearl Cleage is born on December 7 in Springfield, Massachusetts.

1951:     Oscar Hijuelos is born on August 24 in New York City.

1955:     Thomas Mann dies of phlebitis on August 12 in Zurich, Switzerland.

1957:     Peter Høeg is born on May 17 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

1959:     Raymond Chandler dies on March 26 in La Jolla, California, after a bout of pneumonia following a period of heavy drinking.

1966:     Evelyn Waugh dies on April 10 in Combe Florey, Somerset, England.

1966:     Sherman Alexie (born Sherman Joseph Alexie, Jr.) is born on October 7 in Wellpinit on the Spokane Reservation in eastern Washington.

1968:     John Steinbeck dies of a heart attack on December 20 in New York City.

1972:     Frank Herbert's Soul Catcher is published.

1982:     Thomas Keneally's Schindler's List is published.

1986:     Frank Herbert dies of complications following cancer surgery on February 11 in Madison, Wisconsin.

1989:     Oscar Hijuelos's The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love is published.

1990:     Oscar Hijuelos receives the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love.

1993:     Peter Høeg's Smilla's Sense of Snow is published.

1993:     Sherman Alexie's The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven is published.

1997:     Tessa Bridal's The Tree of Red Stars is published.

1997:     Pearl Cleage's What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day is published.