Literary Chronology

1890:

Katherine Anne Porter (Callie Russell Porter) is born on May 15 in Indian Creek, Texas.

1912:

Mary Lavin is born in East Walpole, Massachusetts.

1922:

José Saramago is born on November 16 in Azinhaga, Ribatejo, Portugal.

1922:

James Hurst is born near Jacksonville, North Carolina.

1935:

Annie Proulx is born in Norwich, Connecticut.

1938:

Raymond Carver is born on May 25 in Clatskanie, Oregon.

1942:

Stuart Dybek is born on April 10.

1943:

James Alan McPherson is born in Savannah, Georgia.

1945:

Thom Douglas Jones is born on January 26 in Aurora, Illinois.

1949:

Haruki Murakami is born on January 12 in Ashiya City, Japan.

1960:

Katherine Anne Porter's "Holiday" is published.

1960:

James Hurst's "The Scarlet Ibis" is published.

1962:

Carolyn Ferrell is born on April 29 in Brooklyn, New York.

1966:

Katherine Anne Porter's Collected Stories wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

1968:

Heidi Julavits is born in Portland, Maine.

1973:

Julie Orringer is born on June 12 in Miami, Florida.

1977:

James Alan McPherson's "Elbow Room" is published.

1979:

James Alan McPherson's Elbow Room wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

1980:

Katherine Anne Porter dies on September 18.

1983:

Raymond Carver's "A Small, Good Thing" is published.

1984:

Stuart Dybek's "Hot Ice" is published.

1984:

Raymond Carver's Cathedral is nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

1988:

Raymond Carver dies on August 2 of lung cancer at his home in Port Washington.

1991:

Haruki Murakami's "The Elephant Vanishes" is published.

1993:

Carolyn Ferrell's "Proper Library" is published.

1993:

Thom Jones's "The Pugilist at Rest" is published.

1996:

Mary Lavin dies in March in Dublin, Ireland.

1998:

Annie Proulx's "Brokeback Mountain" is published.

1998:

Mary Lavin's "In the Middle of the Fields" is published.

1998:

Heidi Julavits's "Marry the One Who Gets There First" is published.

1998:

José Saramago wins the Nobel Prize for Literature.

2000:

Mary Swan's "The Deep" is published.

2003:

Julie Orringer's "The Smoothest Way Is Full of Stones" is published.

2004:

José Saramago's "The Centaur" is published.