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1997 in literature

1997 in literature

Overview of the events of 1997 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1997.

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Events

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  • Tom Clancy signs a deal with Pearson Custom Publishing and Penguin Putnam Inc. giving him US $50 million for the world English rights to two new books. A second agreement pays another $25 million for a four-year book/multimedia deal, and a third, with Berkley Books for 24 paperbacks to tie in with an ABC television miniseries for $22 million.
  • Janet Dailey admits to plagiarism of the novels of the fellow American bestselling romance writer Nora Roberts.[4][5]

New books

Fiction

Children and young people

Drama

Poetry

Main article: 1997 in poetry

Non-fiction

Births

Deaths

Awards

Australia

Canada

France

Spain

United Kingdom

United States

Fiction: Josip Novakovich (fiction/nonfiction), Melanie Rae Thon
Nonfiction: Jo Ann Beard, Suketu Mehta (fiction/nonfiction), Ellen Meloy
Plays: Erik Ehn
Poetry: Connie Deanovich, Forrest Gander, Jody Gladding, Mark Turpin

Elsewhere

Notes

  • Hahn, Daniel (2015). The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (2nd ed.). Oxford. University Press. ISBN 9780198715542.

References

  1. [1]
    Hampton, Wilborn (April 6, 1997). "Allen Ginsberg, Master Poet Of Beat Generation, Dies at 70". New York Times. Archived from the original on March 11, 2008. Retrieved April 14, 2008.
  2. [2]
    Ginsberg, Allen. Collected Poems 1947–1997. pp. 1160–61.
  3. [3]
    "Harry Potter, 'Huckleberry Finn' among controversial". Banned books. CNN. Archived from the original on 2004-08-05.
  4. [4]
    Wilson, Jeff (1997-07-30). "Romance novelist Janet Dailey apologizes for plagiarism". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
  5. [5]
    Standora, Leo (1997-08-27). "Romance Writer Janet Dailey Sued". New York Daily News. Archived from the original on 2009-08-01. Retrieved 2008-11-18.
  6. [6]
    The Worlds of Carol Shields. University of Ottawa Press. 2014. p. 113. ISBN 9780776621869.
  7. [7]
    Hahn 2015, p. 14
  8. [8]
    Hahn 2015, p.106
  9. [9]
    "His Dark Materials". Oxford Reference. Retrieved 11 January 2022.
  10. [10]
    Hahn 2015, pp. 264-265
  11. [11]
    Hahn 2015, p. 631
  12. [12]
    Kevin Warwick (1997). March of the Machines: Why the New Race of Robots Will Rule the World. Century. ISBN 978-0-7126-7756-1.
  13. [13]
    "L'empire des rois khmers". livreshebdo.fr (in French). 1997. Retrieved 14 April 2022.
  14. [14]
    Davison, Peter (August 1, 1998). "The Burden of James Dickey". The Atlantic.
  15. [15]
    Owens, Irene (January 2003). "Reason, Joseph Henry". In Donald G. Davis (ed.). Dictionary of American Library Biography: Second supplement. Libraries Unlimited. pp. 182–186. ISBN 978-1-56308-868-1.
  16. [16]
    2003 Penguin Modern Classics edition of Junky.
  17. [17]
    Onishi, Norimitsu. "Leon Forrest, 60, a Novelist Who Explored Black History", The New York Times, November 10, 1997.
  18. [18]
    Kathy Acker and Transnationalism, ed. Polina Mackay and Kathryn Nicol (Cambridge Scholars, 2009)
  19. [19]
    Faculty of Arts, 1997, Edna Staebler Award Archived 2014-06-06 at Archive-It, Wilfrid Laurier University, Previous winners, Anne Mullens, Retrieved 11/17/2012
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