Literary Chronology

1865:

Rudyard Kipling (Joseph Rudyard Kipling) is born on December 30 in Bombay, India.

1894:

Rudyard Kipling's "Mowgli's Brothers" is published.

1898:

Stephen Vincent Benét is born on July 22 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

1899:

Elizabeth Bowen is born on June 7 in Dublin, Ireland.

1902:

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

1915:

Saul Bellow is born on June 10 in Lachine, Quebec, Canada.

1928:

Cynthia Ozick is born on April 17 in New York City.

1932:

Stephen Vincent Benét's "An End to Dreams" is published.

1936:

Lars Gustafsson is born on May 17 in Västerås, Sweden.

1936:

Rudyard Kipling dies on January 18 of peritonitis caused by a hemorrhaging gastric ulcer.

1941:

Simon J. Ortiz is born on May 27 and raised on the Acoma Pueblo, near Albuquerque, New Mexico.

1943:

Stephen Vincent Benét dies of a heart attack on March 13 in New York City.

1945:

Robert Olen Butler is born on January 20 in Granite City, Illinois.

1947:

John Steinbeck's "The Pearl" is published.

1954:

Louise Erdrich is born in Little Falls, Minnesota.

1955:

Elizabeth Bowen's "A Day in the Dark" is published.

1964:

Aleksandar Hemon is born in Yugoslavia in Sarajevo, the capitol of what is, in 2005, Bosnia-Herzegovina.

1965:

Mary Yukari Waters is born in Kyoto, Japan.

1968:

John Steinbeck dies on December 20 in New York City, and at his request his ashes are buried in the Garden of Memories Cemetery in Salinas, California.

1973:

Elizabeth Bowen dies of lung cancer on February 22 at her home at Hythe, England.

1974:

Simon J. Ortiz's "The End of Old Horse" is published.

1978:

Saul Bellow's "A Silver Dish" is published.

1981:

Lars Gustafsson's "Greatness Strikes Where It Pleases" is published.

1983:

Cynthia Ozick's "Rosa" is published.

1986:

Louise Erdrich's "Fleur" is published.

1996:

Robert Olen Butler's "Titanic Survivors Found in Bermuda Triangle" is published.

1998:

Aleksandar Hemon's "Islands" is published.

1999:

Samrat Upadhyay's "The Good Shopkeeper" is published.

2001:

Mary Yukari Waters's "Aftermath" is published.

2005:

Saul Bellow dies on April 5 in Brookline, Massachusetts.