Literary Chronology

1707:     Henry Fielding is born on April 22 in Somerset, England.

1749:     Henry Fielding's Tom Jones is published.

1754:     Henry Fielding dies on October 8 in Lisbon, Portugal.

1775:     Jane Austen is born on December 16 in Steventon, Hampshire, England.

1811:     Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility is published.

1817:     Jane Austen dies on July 18 in Winchester, England, after a gradual illness.

1847:     Bram Stoker is born Abraham Stoker on November 8 in Clontarf, Ireland.

1885:     D. H. Lawrence is born David Herbert Richard Lawrence on September 11 in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, England.

1897:     Bram Stoker's Dracula is published.

1900:     Thomas Wolfe is born on October 3 in Asheville, North Carolina.

1900:     Hal Borland is born Harold Glen Borland on May 14 in Sterling, Nebraska.

1912:     Bram Stoker dies on April 20 in London, England, of syphilis.

1913:     D. H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers is published.

1919:     Iris Murdoch is born on July 15 in Dublin, Ireland.

1925:     Robert Cormier is born on January 17 in Leominster, Massachusetts.

1929:     Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward, Angel is published.

1929:     Milan Kundera is born on April 1 in Brno, Czechoslovakia.

1930:     D. H. Lawrence dies on March 2 in Vence, France, from tuberculosis.

1931:     Sébastien Japrisot is born in Marseille, France.

1933:     Reynolds Price is born on February 1 in Macon, North Carolina.

1938:     Thomas Wolfe dies on September 15 in Baltimore, Maryland, from tubercular meningitis.

1942:     Isabel Allende is on August 2 in Lima, Peru.

1949:     Graham Swift is born on May 4 in London, England.

1954:     Iris Murdoch's Under the Net is published.

1962:     Reynolds Price's A Long and Happy Life is published.

1963:     Hal Borland's When the Legends Die is published.

1977:     Robert Cormier's I Am the Cheese is published.

1978:     Hal Borland dies on February 22 in Sharon, Connecticut.

1983:     Graham Swift's Waterland is published.

1984:     Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being is published.

1991:     Sébastien Japrisot's A Very Long Engagement is published. 1999:     Isabel Allende's Daughter of Fortune is published.

1999:     Iris Murdoch dies on February 8 in Oxford, England, from complications arising from Alzheimer's disease.

2000:     Robert Cormier dies on November 2 in Boston, Massachusetts, from lung cancer.