A Brief History of English-language Literature

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Daniel Galouye (USA, 1920): "Simulacron-3 " (1964)
Barbara Guest (USA, 1920): "The Location of Things" (1960) [p]
Oakley Hall (USA, 1920): "Warlock" (1958)
Richard Adams (Britain, 1920): "Shardik" (1974)
Richard Adams (Britain, 1920): "Watership Down" (1972)
Keith Douglas (Britain, 1920): "Poems" (1944) [p]
Charles Bukowski (USA, 1920): "Post Office" (1971)
Charles Bukowski (USA, 1920): "Tales of Ordinary Madness" (1972) +
Charles Bukowski (USA, 1920): “Love Is a Dog from Hell” (1977) [p]
Charles Bukowski (USA, 1920): “Dangling in the Tournefortia” (1981) [p]
Mario Puzo (USA, 1920): "The Fortunate Pilgrim" (1964)
Mario Puzo (USA, 1920): "The Godfather" (1969)
Paul Scott (Britain, 1920): "The Jewel in the Crown" (1966) +
Paul Scott (Britain, 1920): "The Day of the Scorpion" (1968)
Paul Scott (Britain, 1920): "Towers of Silence" (1972)
Paul Scott (Britain, 1920): "Staying On" (1977)
Paul Scott (Britain, 1920): "Division of the Spoils" (1975)
Amos Tutuola (Nigeria, 1920): "The Palm-wine Drinkard" (1952) +
Amos Tutuola (Nigeria, 1920): "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts" (1954)
Donald Windham (USA, 1920): "Two People" (1965)
Phyllis-Dorothy James (Britain, 1920): "Cover Her Face" (1962)
Phyllis-Dorothy James (Britain, 1920): The Children of Men (1992)
Amy Clampitt (USA, 1920): "The Kingfisher" (1983) [p]
Amy Clampitt (USA, 1920): "Westward" (1990) [p]
Howard Nemerov (USA, 1920): "The Salt Garden (1955) [p]
Isaac Asimov (USA, 1920): "Nightfall" (1941)
Isaac Asimov (USA, 1920): "Foundation" (1953)
Isaac Asimov (USA, 1920): "Foundation and Empire" (1953)
Isaac Asimov (USA, 1920): "Foundation's Edge " (1982)
Isaac Asimov (USA, 1920): "Second Foundation " (1953)
Isaac Asimov (USA, 1920): "The Last Question" (1956)
Ray Bradbury (USA, 1920): "Fahrenheit 451" (1953) +
Ray Bradbury (USA, 1920): "A Sound of Thunder" (1952)
Ray Bradbury (USA, 1920): "Dandelion Wine" (1957)
Frank Herbert (USA, 1920): "Destination Void" (1966)
Frank Herbert (USA, 1920): "Dune" (1965) +
Elizabet Berridge (Britain, 1921): "The Rose Under Glass" (1961)
Elizabet Berridge (Britain, 1921): "Across the Common" (1964)
George-Mackay Brown (Britain, 1921): "Greenvoe" (1972) +
George-Mackay Brown (Britain, 1921): "Besides the Ocean of Time" (1994)
Cyprian Ekwensi (Nigeria, 1921): "When Love Whispers" (1947)
Cyprian Ekwensi (Nigeria, 1921): "Jagua Nana" (1961) +
Alex Haley (USA, 1921): "Roots" (1976)

Wilson Harris (Guyana, 1921): "Palace of the Peacock" (1960) ++
Wilson Harris (Guyana, 1921): "The Far Journey of Oudin" (1961) +
Wilson Harris (Guyana, 1921): "Whole Armour" (1962) +
Wilson Harris (Guyana, 1921): "Secret Ladder" (1963) +
Wilson Harris (Guyana, 1921): "Heartland" (1964)
Wilson Harris (Guyana, 1921): "The Eye of the Scarecrow" (1965) +
Wilson Harris (Guyana, 1921): "Tumatumari" (1968)
Wilson Harris (Guyana, 1921): "The Angel at the Gate" (1982)
Wilson Harris (Guyana, 1921): "Black Marsden" (1972)
Wilson Harris (Guyana, 1921): "Companions of the Day and Night" (1975)
Wilson Harris (Guyana, 1921): "Da Silva da Silva's Cultivated Wilderness" (1977) +
Wilson Harris (Guyana, 1921): "The Tree of the Sun" (1978)
Wilson Harris (Guyana, 1921): "Genesis of the Clowns" (1977)
Wilson Harris (Guyana, 1921): "Carnival" (1985)
Wilson Harris (Guyana, 1921): "The Infinite Rehearsal" (1987)
Wilson Harris (Guyana, 1921): "The Four Banks of the River of Space" (1990)
Wilson Harris (Guyana, 1921): "Resurrection at Sorrow Hill" (1993)
Wilson Harris (Guyana, 1921): "The Dark Jester" (2001)
Wilson Harris (Guyana, 1921): "The Mask of the Beggar" (2003)
James Jones (USA, 1921): "From Here to Eternity" (1951) +
James Jones (USA, 1921): "Some Came Running" (1957)
Brian Moore (Britain, 1921): "Judith Hearne" (1955) +
Brian Moore (Britain, 1921): "The Luck of Ginger Coffey" (1960)
Brian Moore (Britain, 1921): "While I Am Mary Dunne" (1968)
Brian Moore (Britain, 1921): "The Great victorian Collection" (1975) +
Brian Moore (Britain, 1921): "The Doctor's Wife" (1976)
Brian Moore (Britain, 1921): "Cold Heaven" (1983)
Brian Moore (Britain, 1921): "The Statement" (1995)
Gabriel Okara (Nigeria, 1921): "The Voice" (1960) +
Gabriel Okara (Nigeria, 1921): The Fisherman's Invocation" (1978) [p]
Patricia Highsmith (USA, 1921): "Strangers on a Train" (1950)
Patricia Highsmith (USA, 1921): "The Talented Mr Ripley" (1955) +
Patricia Highsmith (USA, 1921): "Deep Water" (1957)
Marie Ponsot (USA, 1921): "The Bird Catcher" (1998) [p]
Richard Wilbur (USA, 1921): "Things of This World" (1956) : "Things of This World" (1956) [p] +
Richard Wilbur (USA, 1921): "The Ride" (1982) [p]
James Blish (USA, 1921): "A Case of Conscience" (1958)
Mona Van Duyn (USA, 1921): "Near Changes" (1990) [p]
Hayden Carruth (USA, 1921): "Scrambled Eggs and Whiskey" (1996) [p]
Kingsley Amis (Britain, 1922): "Lucky Jim" (1954) +
Kingsley Amis (Britain, 1922): "Ending Up" (1974)
Kingsley Amis (Britain, 1922): "Old Devils" (1986)
Howard Moss (USA, 1922): "Second Nature" (1968) [p]
John-Edward Williams (USA, 1922): "Stoner" (1965) +
John-Edward Williams (USA, 1922): "Butcher's Crossing" (1960)
Vance Bourjailj (USA, 1922): "End of My Life" (1947)
Vance Bourjailj (USA, 1922): "The Violated" (1958) +
John Braine (Britain, 1922): "Room at the Top" (1957)
Hone Tuwhare (New Zealand, 1922): "Something Nothing" (1974) [p]
Kendrick Smithyman (New Zealand, 1922): "Inheritance" (1962) [p]
Kendrick Smithyman (New Zealand, 1922): "Reading the Maps" (1977) [p] +
Kendrick Smithyman (New Zealand, 1922): "Stories About Wooden Keyboards" (1985) [p]
Kendrick Smithyman (New Zealand, 1922): "Atua Wera" (1995) [p]
William Demby (USA, 1922): "Beetlecreek" (1950)
William Gaddis (USA, 1922): "The Recognitions" (1955) ++
William Gaddis (USA, 1922): "JR" (1976) +
William Gaddis (USA, 1922): "Carpenter's Gothic" (1985) +
William Gaddis (USA, 1922): "A Frolic of His Own" (1994)
Mavis Gallant (Canada, 1922): "Green Water Green Sky" (1959)
Jack Kerouac (USA, 1922): "On the Road" (1957)
Jack Kerouac (USA, 1922): "The Subterraneans" (1958)
Jack Kerouac (USA, 1922): "Dharma Bums" (1958)
Jack Kerouac (USA, 1922): "Doctor Sax" (1959)
Jack Kerouac (USA, 1922): "Big Sur" (1962)
Philip Larkin (Britain, 1922): "Girl in winter" (1947)
Philip Larkin (Britain, 1922): "The North Ship" (1945) [p]
Philip Larkin (Britain, 1922): "The Less Deceived" (1955) [p] +
Philip Larkin (Britain, 1922): "The Whitsun Weddings" (1964) [p] +
Philip Larkin (Britain, 1922): "High Windows" (1974) [p] +
Grace Paley (USA, 1922): "Goodbye and Good Luck" (1959)
Grace Paley (USA, 1922): "The Used-Boy Raisers" (1959)
Kurt Vonnegut (USA, 1922): "Player Piano" (1952)
Kurt Vonnegut (USA, 1922): "The Sirens of Titan" (1959) +
Kurt Vonnegut (USA, 1922): "Mother Night" (1961)
Kurt Vonnegut (USA, 1922): "Cat's Cradle" (1963) +
Kurt Vonnegut (USA, 1922): "God Bless You" (1965)
Kurt Vonnegut (USA, 1922): "Slaughterhouse 5" (1969) +
Kurt Vonnegut (USA, 1922): "Breakfast of Champions" (1973)
Kurt Vonnegut (USA, 1922): "Slapstick" (1976)
Kurt Vonnegut (USA, 1922): "Jailbird" (1979)
Kurt Vonnegut (USA, 1922): "Deadeye Dick" (1982)
Kurt Vonnegut (USA, 1922): "Galapagos" (1985)
Calder Willingham (USA, 1922): "Natural Child" (1952)
Calder Willingham (USA, 1922): "Rambling Rose" (1972)
Donald Davie (Britain, 1922): "Brides of Reason" (1955) [p]
Donald Davie (Britain, 1922): "Three for Water Music" (1981) [p]
Judith Kerr (Britain, 1923): "When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit" (1971)
Walter Miller (USA, 1923): "A Canticle for Leibowitz" (1959)
James Schuyler (USA, 1923): "The Morning of the Poem" (1980) [p]
James Schuyler (USA, 1923): "Freely Espousing" (1969) [p]

Nadine Gordimer (South Africa, 1923): "The Late Bourgeois World" (1967)
Nadine Gordimer (South Africa, 1923): "A Guest of Honor" (1971)
Nadine Gordimer (South Africa, 1923): "The Conservationist" (1974) +
Nadine Gordimer (South Africa, 1923): "The Burger's Daughter" (1979) ++
Nadine Gordimer (South Africa, 1923): "My Son's Story" (1990)
Joseph Heller (USA, 1923): "Catch 22" (1961) +
Walter Michael (USA, 1923): "A Canticle for Leibowitz" (1960) +
Elizabeth Howard (Britain, 1923): "The Beautiful Visit" (1950)
Elizabeth Jolley (Britain, 1923): "Miss Peabody's Inheritance" (1983)
Francis King (Britain, 1923): "Act of Darkness" (1983)
Norman Mailer (USA, 1923): "The Naked and The Dead" (1948) +
Norman Mailer (USA, 1923): "The Deer Park" (1955)
Norman Mailer (USA, 1923): "The American Dream" (1965)
Norman Mailer (USA, 1923): "The Executioner's Song" (1979) +
Norman Mailer (USA, 1923): "Harlot's Ghost" (1991)
Norman Mailer (USA, 1923): "The Castle in the Forest" (2007)
John Mortimer (Britain, 1923): "Paradise Postponed" (1985)
John Mortimer (Britain, 1923): "The Judge" (1967) [t]
Nicholas Mosley (Britain, 1923): "Meeting Place" (1962)
Nicholas Mosley (Britain, 1923): "Accident" (1965) +
Nicholas Mosley (Britain, 1923): "Hopeful Monsters" (1990)
James Purdy (USA, 1923): "Malcolm" (1959) +
James Purdy (USA, 1923): "The Nephew" (1960)
James Purdy (USA, 1923): "Eustache Chisolm" (1967)
James Purdy (USA, 1923): "Cabot Wright Begins" (1964)
James Purdy (USA, 1923): "Jeremy's Version" (1970)
James Purdy (USA, 1923): "I am Elijah Thrush" (1972)
James Purdy (USA, 1923): "In a Shallow Grave" (1975) +
James Purdy (USA, 1923): "In the Hollow of His Hand" (1986)
James Purdy (USA, 1923): "Garments in the living wear" (1989)
Bernice Rubens (Britain, 1923): "Madame Sousatzka" (1962) +
Bernice Rubens (Britain, 1923): "The Elected Member/ The Chosen People" (1969) +
Bernice Rubens (Britain, 1923): "Spring Sonata" (1979)
Bernice Rubens (Britain, 1923): "A Solitary Grief" (1991)
Bernice Rubens (Britain, 1923): "Mother Russia" (1992)
Bernice Rubens (Britain, 1923): "Autobiopsy" (1993)
Samuel Selvon (Trinidad, 1923): "A Brighter Sun" (1952) +
Samuel Selvon (Trinidad, 1923): "Lonely Londoners" (1956)
Brendan Behan (Ireland, 1923): "The Quare Fellow" (1955) [t] +
Brendan Behan (Ireland, 1923): "The Hostage" (1958) [t] +
Paddy Chayefsky (USA, 1923): "Marty" (1953) [t] +
James Dickey (USA, 1923): "Deliverance" (1970)
James Dickey (USA, 1923): "Into the Stone" (1960) [p]
James Dickey (USA, 1923): "Helmets" (1964) [p]
James Dickey (USA, 1923): "Buckdancer's Choice" (1965) [p] +
James Dickey (USA, 1923): "The Eye-Beaters" (1970)
Anthony Hecht (USA, 1923): "A Summoning of Stones" (1954) [p]
Anthony Hecht (USA, 1923):"The Hard Hours" (1967) [p] +
Anthony Hecht (USA, 1923):"Millions of Strange Shadows" (1977) [p]
Anthony Hecht (USA, 1923):"The Venetian Vespers" (1980) [p]
Anthony Hecht (USA, 1923):"The Transparent Man" (1990) [p]
Denise Levertov (USA, 1923): "Overland to the Islands" (1958) [p]
Denise Levertov (USA, 1923): "With Eyes at the Back of Our Heads" (1959) [p]
Denise Levertov (USA, 1923): "O Taste and See" (1964) [p] +
Denise Levertov (USA, 1923): "The Sorrow Dance" (1967) [p]
Louis Simpson (USA, 1923): "At the End of the Open Road" (1963) [p]
Philip Whalen (USA, 1923): "Like I Say" (1960) [p]
Philip Whalen (USA, 1923): "Memoirs of an Interglacial Age" (1960) [p]
Philip Whalen (USA, 1923): "High Grade" (1966) [p] +
Gordon Dickson (USA, 1923): "Genetic General" (1960)
Jack Vance (USA, 1923): "Dragon Masters" (1963)
Paula Fox (USA, 1923): "Desperate Characters" (1970)
Paula Fox (USA, 1923): "The Widow's Children" (1976)
James Kirkup (Britain, 1923): "The Spring Journey" (1954) [p]
Gavin Lambert (Britain, 1924): "The Goodby People" (1971)
Louis Johnson (New Zealand, 1924): "Stanza and Scene" (1945) [p]
Francisco Jose (Philippines, 1924): "The Pretenders" (1962)
Francisco Jose (Philippines, 1924): "Mass" (1973)
John Haines (USA, 1924): "Letter to Patience" (2006) [p] +
Edgar Bowers (USA, 1924): "Living Together" (1973) [p]
James Baldwin (USA, 1924): "Go Tell It On The Mountain" (1953) +
James Baldwin (USA, 1924): "Giovanni's Room" (1956)
James Baldwin (USA, 1924): "Another Country" (1962)
James Baldwin (USA, 1924): "Blues for Mr Charlie" (1964) [t]
Thomas Berger (USA, 1924): "The Little Big Man" (1964)
Thomas Berger (USA, 1924): "Killing Time" (1967)
John Bowen (Britain, 1924): "Squeak" (1983)
Truman Capote (USA, 1924): "Breakfast at Tiffany's" (1958)
Truman Capote (USA, 1924): "In Cold Blood" (1966) +
Truman Capote (USA, 1924): "Other Voices" (1948)
Evan Connell (USA, 1924): "Mrs Bridge" (1969)
Thomas Flanagan (Ireland, 1924): "The Year of the French" (1979) +
Thomas Flanagan (Ireland, 1924): "Tenants of Time" (1987)
Janet Frame (New Zealand, 1924): "Owls Do Cry" (1956) +
Janet Frame (New Zealand, 1924): "Faces in the Water" (1961)
Janet Frame (New Zealand, 1924): "The Edge of the Alphabet" (1962)
Janet Frame (New Zealand, 1924): "Scented Gardens For The Blind" (1963) ++
Janet Frame (New Zealand, 1924): "The Adaptable Man" (1965)
Janet Frame (New Zealand, 1924): "The Rainbirds" (1968)
Janet Frame (New Zealand, 1924): "Intensive Care" (1970)
Janet Frame (New Zealand, 1924): "Daughter Buffalo" (1972)
Janet Frame (New Zealand, 1924): "The Carpathians" (1988) +
William Gass (USA, 1924): "Omensetter's Luck" (1966) +
William Gass (USA, 1924): "In the Heart of the Country" (1968)
William Gass (USA, 1924): "Willie Master's Lonesome Wife" (1970)
William Gass (USA, 1924): "Tunnel" (1994)
Herbert Gold (USA, 1924): "Salt" (1963)
Kamala Markandaya (India, 1924): "Nectar in a Sieve" (1954)
Kamala Markandaya (India, 1924): "The Nowhere Man" (1972) +
Kamala Markandaya (India, 1924): "Golden Honeycomb" (1977)
Terry Southern (USA, 1924): "Flash and Filigree" (1958) +
Terry Southern (USA, 1924): "Magic Christian" (1959)
Peter George (Britain, 1924): "Two Hours to Doom" (1958)
Francis Wyndham (Britain, 1924): "The Other Garden" (1987)
Robert Bolt (Britain, 1924): "A Man For All Seasons" (1954) [t]
Dennis Brutus (South Africa, 1924): "Sirens, Knuckles and Boots" (1962) [p]
Dennis Brutus (South Africa, 1924): "Letters to Martha" (1968) [p] +
Nissim Ezekiel (India, 1924): "Time To Change" (1952) [p]
Nissim Ezekiel (India, 1924): "Nalini" (1969) [t]
Ismith Khan (Trinidad, 1925): "The Jumbie Bird" (1961)
Gerald Stern (USA, 1925): "Lucky Life” (1977) [p]
Etel Adnan (Lebanon, 1925): "Sitt Marie Rose" (1977)
James Salter (USA, 1925): "Light Years" (1975) +
James Salter (USA, 1925): "A Sport and a Pastime" (1967)
James Salter (USA, 1925): "Solo Faces" (1979)
Srinivas Rayaprol (India, 1925): "Married Love" (1972) [p]
Edward Gorey (USA, 1925): "The Unstrung Harp" (1953)
Donald Justice (USA, 1925): "The Summer Anniversaries" (1960) [p]
Donald Justice (USA, 1925): "Departures" (1973) [p]
Jack Spicer (USA, 1925): "After Lorca" (1957) [p]
Jack Spicer (USA, 1925): "Imaginary Elegies" (1960) +
Nina Bawden (Britain, 1925): "Tortoise by Candlelight" (1963)
John Hawkes (USA, 1925): "The Cannibal" (1949) +
John Hawkes (USA, 1925): "Beetle Leg" (1951)
John Hawkes (USA, 1925): "Lime Twig" (1960) +
John Hawkes (USA, 1925): "Second Skin" (1963) +
John Hawkes (USA, 1925): "Blood Oranges" (1971)
John Hawkes (USA, 1925): "Death Sleep" (1974)
John Hawkes (USA, 1925): "Travesty" (1976)
John Hawkes (USA, 1925): "Passion Artist" (1979)
John Hawkes (USA, 1925): "Virginie" (1982)
John Hawkes (USA, 1925): "Adventures in the Alaskan Skin Trade" (1985)
John Hawkes (USA, 1925): "Whistlejacket" (1988)
Alex LaGuma (South Africa, 1925): "A Walk in the Night" (1962) +
Alex LaGuma (South Africa, 1925): "The Stone Country" (1967)
Flannery O'Connor (USA, 1925): "Wise Blood" (1952)
Flannery O'Connor (USA, 1925): "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" (1955)
Flannery O'Connor (USA, 1925): "The Violent Bear It Away" (1960) +
Flannery O'Connor (USA, 1925): "Everything That Rises Must Converge" (1964)
William Styron (USA, 1925): "Lie Down in Darkness" (1951)
William Styron (USA, 1925): "The Long March" (1952)
William Styron (USA, 1925): "Set This House on Fire" (1960)
William Styron (USA, 1925): "The Confessions of Nat Turner" (1967)
William Styron (USA, 1925): "Sophie's Choice" (1979) +
Frank Tuohy (Britain, 1925): "Ice Saints" (1964)
Gore Vidal (USA, 1925): "The City and the Pillar" (1948)
Gore Vidal (USA, 1925): "Myra Breckinridge" (1968) +
Gore Vidal (USA, 1925): "Myron" (1974)
Gore Vidal (USA, 1925): "Duluth" (1983)
Gore Vidal (USA, 1925): "Lincoln" (1984)
Gore Vidal (USA, 1925): "The Best Man" (1960) [t]
John Wain (Britain, 1925): "Hurry On Down" (1953)
William Wharton (USA, 1925): "Birdy" (1979)
Emmett Williams (USA, 1925): "The Ultimate Poem" (1968) [p]
Jack Gilbert (USA, 1925): "Views of Jeopardy" (1962) [p]
Pamela Gems (Britain, 1925): "Dusa Fish Stas and Vi" (1976) [t]
Elmore Leonard (USA, 1925): "La Brava" (1983)
Elmore Leonard (USA, 1925): "Get Shorty" (1990)
Ian-Hamilton Finlay (Britain, 1925): "Rapel" (1963) [p]
Kenneth Koch (USA, 1925): "Seasons On Earth" (1959) [p] +
Kenneth Koch (USA, 1925): "When The Sun Tries To Go On" (1960) [p] +
Kenneth Koch (USA, 1925): "The Art of Love" (1975)
Kenneth Koch (USA, 1925): "New Addresses" (2000)
Brian Aldiss (Britain, 1925): "Hothouse" (1962)
Brian Aldiss (Britain, 1925): "Non-stop" (1958)
Brian Aldiss (Britain, 1925): "Super-Toys Last All Summer Long" (1968)
Harry Harrison (USA, 1925): "Make Room" (1966)
Russell Hoban (USA, 1925): "Turtle Diary" (1975)
Russell Hoban (USA, 1925): "Riddley Walker" (1980) +
James Reaney (Canada, 1926): "The Red Heart" (1949) [p]
Archie-Randolph Ammons (1926): "Sphere" (1974) [p] +
Archie-Randolph Ammons (1926): "Hibernaculum" (1971) [p]
Archie-Randolph Ammons (1926): "Essay on Poetics" (1970) [p]
Archie-Randolph Ammons (1926): "Extremes and Moderations" (1971) [p]
Archie-Randolph Ammons (1926): "Tape for the Turn of a New Year" (1965) [p]
Archie-Randolph Ammons (1926): "Garbage" (1993) [p]
Archie-Randolph Ammons (1926): "Glare" (1997) [p]
Richard Matheson (USA, 1926): "I Am Legend" (1954) +
Richard Matheson (USA, 1926): "The Shrinking Man" (1956)
Richard Matheson (USA, 1926): "A Stir of Echoes" (1958)
Richard Matheson (USA, 1926): "Duel" (1971)
Richard Matheson (USA, 1926): "Hell House" (1971)
Richard Matheson (USA, 1926): "What Dreams May Come" (1978)
Margaret Laurence (Canada, 1926): "The Stone Angel" (1964) +
Margaret Laurence (Canada, 1926): "A Jest of God" (1966)
John Berger (USA, 1926): "G" (1972) +
John Berger (USA, 1926): "Pig Earth" (1979)
Anthony Shaffer (Britain, 1926): "Sleuth" (1970) [t] +
Peter Shaffer (Britain, 1926): "Royal Hunt of the Sun" (1964) [t]
Peter Shaffer (Britain, 1926): "Equus" (1973) [t] +
Peter Shaffer (Britain, 1926): "Five Finger Exercise" (1958) [t]
Peter Shaffer (Britain, 1926): "Amadeus" (1979) [t]
Christopher Middleton (Britain, 1926): "The Lonely Suppers of W.V. Baloon" (1975) [p]
Christine Brooke-Rose: (Britain, 1926): "Out" (1964)
Christine Brooke-Rose: (Britain, 1926): "Such" (1966)
Christine Brooke-Rose: (Britain, 1926): "Xorandor" (1986)
James Donleavy (USA, 1926): "The Ginger Man" (1955)
Paul Blackburn (USA, 1926): "The Net of Place" (1968)
John Fowles (Britain, 1926): "The Collector" (1963)
John Fowles (Britain, 1926): "The Magus" (1966)
John Fowles (Britain, 1926): "The French Lieutenant's Woman" (1969) +
John Fowles (Britain, 1926): "Daniel Martin" (1976)
Roy Heath (Guyana, 1926): "The Murderer" (1978) +
Roy Heath (Guyana, 1926): "From the Heat of the Day" (1979)
Thomas Hinde (Britain, 1926): "Mr Nicholas" (1952)
John-Clellon Holmes (USA, 1926): "The Horn" (1958)
John Knowles (USA, 1926): "A Separate Peace" (1959)
Harper Lee (USA, 1926): "To Kill a Mockingbird" (1960) +
Alison Lurie (USA, 1926): "The War Between the Tates" (1974)
Alison Lurie (USA, 1926): "Foreign Affairs" (1985) +
Edward Wallant (USA, 1926): "The Human Season" (1960)
Edward Wallant (USA, 1926): "The Tenants of Moonbloom" (1963)
Edward Wallant (USA, 1926): "The Pawnbroker" (1961) +
Nicholas Wollaston (Britain, 1926): "Cafe de Paris" (1988)
Herman Wouk (USA, 1926): "The Caine Mutiny" (1951)
Hugh Leonard (Ireland, 1926): "The Poker Session" (1963) [t]
Hugh Leonard (Ireland, 1926): "A Life" (1979) [t]
Hugh Leonard (Ireland, 1926): "Da" (1973) [t] +
Murray Schisgal (USA, 1926): "Luv" (1963) [t]
Peter Shaffer (Britain, 1926): "Five Finger Exercise" (1958) [t]
Peter Shaffer (Britain, 1926): "Black Comedy" (1965) [t]
Peter Shaffer (Britain, 1926): "Equus" (1973) [t] +
Peter Shaffer (Britain, 1926): "Amadeus" (1979) [t]
Youstol Dispage (1926): "Piero Scaruffi" (1989) [p]
Ed McBain (USA, 1926): "Cop Hater" (1956)
Ed McBain (USA, 1926): "King's Ransom" (1959)
James Baxter (New Zealand, 1926): "Beyond the Palisade" (1944) [p]
James Baxter (New Zealand, 1926): "Traveller's Litany" (1955) [p]
James Baxter (New Zealand, 1926): "Howrah Bridge" (1961) [p] +
James Baxter (New Zealand, 1926): "Pig Island Letters" (1966) [p]
James Baxter (New Zealand, 1926): "The Wide Open Cage" (1959) [t]
James Baxter (New Zealand, 1926): "The Band Rotunda" (1967) [t]
James Baxter (New Zealand, 1926): "The Sore-Footed Man" (1967) [t]
James Baxter (New Zealand, 1926): "The Devil and Mr Mulcahy" (1967) [t]
James Baxter (New Zealand, 1926): "The Temptations of Oedipus" (1970) [t]
Robert Bly (USA, 1926): "Silence in the Snowy Fields" (1962) [p]
Robert Creeley (USA, 1926): "For Love" (1962) [p]
Robert Creeley (USA, 1926): "Words" (1967) [p]
Robert Creeley (USA, 1926): "Pieces" (1969) [p]
Allen Ginsberg (USA, 1926): "Howl" (1955) [p] +
Allen Ginsberg (USA, 1926): "Kaddish" (1961) [p]
Elizabeth Jennings (Britain, 1926): "A Way of Looking" (1955) [p] +
Elizabeth Jennings (Britain, 1926): "The Mind Has Mountains" (1966) [p]
Elizabeth Jennings (Britain, 1926): "Extending The Territory" (1985) [p]
James Merrill (USA, 1926): "The Diblos Notebook" (1965)
James Merrill (USA, 1926): "Nights and Days" (1966) [p] +
James Merrill (USA, 1926): "Braving the Elements" (1972) [p]
James Merrill (USA, 1926): "The Changing Light at Sandover (1982) [p] ++
James Merrill (USA, 1926): "The Inner Room (1988) [p]
James Merrill (USA, 1926): "Self-Portrait in TyvekTM Windbreaker" (1995) [p] +
Frank O'Hara (USA, 1926): "Meditations in an Emergency" (1956) [p] +
Frank O'Hara (USA, 1926): "Second Avenue" (1960) [p]
Frank O'Hara (USA, 1926): "Lunch Poems" (1964) [p]
William-DeWitt Snodgrass (USA, 1926): "Heart's Needle" (1959) [p]
William-DeWitt Snodgrass (USA, 1926): "The Fuehrer Bunker" (1995) [p] +
Poul Anderson (USA, 1926): "Tau Zero" (1970)
Poul Anderson (USA, 1926): "The Boat of a Million Years" (1989)
Richard Yates (USA, 1926): "Revolutionary Road" (1961)
Edmund Cooper (Britain, 1926): "Five to Twelve" (1968)
James Reaney (Canada, 1926): "The Donnelly trilogy" (1975) [t]
Robert Kroetsch (Canada, 1927): "Field Notes" (1981) [p]
Don Coles (Canada, 1927): "Forests of the Medieval World" (1993) [p]
Phyllis Webb (Canada, 1927): "Wilson's Bowl" (1980) [p] +
Phyllis Webb (Canada, 1927): "Naked Poems" (1965) [p]
Phyllis Webb (Canada, 1927): "Trio" (1954) [p]
Burt Blechman (USA, 1927): "How Much" (1962)
James Wright (USA, 1927): "The Green Wall" (1957) [p]
James Wright (USA, 1927): "The Branch Will Not Break" (1963) [p]
David Markson (USA, 1927): "Wittgenstein's Mistress" (1988) +
David Markson (USA, 1927): "This is Not a Novel" (2001)
David Markson (USA, 1927): "The Last Novel" (2007)
Guy Davenport (USA, 1927): "Tatlin" (1970)
Aidan Higgins (Britain, 1927): "Langrishe Go Down" (1966) +
Aidan Higgins (Britain, 1927): "Balcony of Europe" (1972)
Richard Murphy (Ireland, 1927): "Sailing to an Island" (1963) [p]
Richard Murphy (Ireland, 1927): "The Battle of Auighrim" (1968) [p]
Nayantara Sahgal (India, 1927): "Plans for Departure" (1985)
Peter Matthiessen (USA, 1927): "At Play in the Fields of the Lord" (1965)
Peter Matthiessen (USA, 1927): "Killing Mr Watson" (1990)
John Broderick (Ireland, 1927): "The Waking of Willie Ryan" (1965)
James-Leo Herlihy (USA, 1927): "Blue Denim" (1958) [t]
James-Leo Herlihy (USA, 1927): "Midnight Cowboy" (1965)
Ruth-Prawer Jhabvala (Britain, 1927): "Esmond in India" (1958)
Ruth-Prawer Jhabvala (Britain, 1927): "The Householder" (1960)
Ruth-Prawer Jhabvala (Britain, 1927): "Heat and Dust" (1975) +
Ruth-Prawer Jhabvala (Britain, 1927): "Is Search of Love and Beauty" (1983)
George Lamming (Barbados, 1927): "In the Castle of my Skin" (1963)
George Lamming (Barbados, 1927): "Natives of My Person" (1972) +
Simon Raven (Britain, 1927): "The Rich Pay Late" (1964)
Ann Jellicoe (Britain, 1927): "The Knack" (1961) [t]
Peter Nichols (Britain, 1927): "A Day in the Death of Joe Egg" (1967) [t] +
Peter Nichols (Britain, 1927): "The National Health" (1969) [t]
Peter Nichols (Britain, 1927): "Chez Nous" (1974) [t]
Neil Simon (USA, 1927): "Come Blow Your Home" (1961) [t] +
Neil Simon (USA, 1927): "Barefoot in the Park" (1961) [t] +
Neil Simon (USA, 1927): "The Odd Couple" (1965) [t] +
Neil Simon (USA, 1927): "Plaza Suite" (1968) [t] +
Neil Simon (USA, 1927): "The Out-of-towners" (1970) [t] +
Neil Simon (USA, 1927): "Gingerbread Lady" (1970) [t]
Neil Simon (USA, 1927): "Biloxi Blues" (1985) [t]
Neil Simon (USA, 1927): "Brighton Beach Memoirs" (1983) [t]
Neil Simon (USA, 1927): "Broadway Bound" (1986) [t]
Neil Simon (USA, 1927): "Lost in Yonkers" (1991) [t]
Peter Dickinson (Britain, 1927): "Hindsight" (1984)
Paul Abelman (Britain, 1927): "I Hear Voices (1958)
John Ashbery (USA, 1927): "Some Trees" (1956) [p]
John Ashbery (USA, 1927): "Rivers and Mountains" (1966) [p] +
John Ashbery (USA, 1927): "The Double Dream of Spring" (1970) [p]
John Ashbery (USA, 1927): "The System" (1972) [p] +
John Ashbery (USA, 1927): "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror: (1975) [p] ++
John Ashbery (USA, 1927): "Houseboat Days" (1977) [p] +
John Ashbery (USA, 1927): "As We Know" (1979) [p]
John Ashbery (USA, 1927): "A Wave" (1984) [p] +
John Ashbery (USA, 1927): "April Galleons" (1987) [p]
John Ashbery (USA, 1927): "Flow Chart" (1991) [p]
John Ashbery (USA, 1927): "Wakefulness" (1998) [p]
John Ashbery (USA, 1927): "Chinese Whispers" (2002) [p]
Galway Kinnell (USA, 1927): "What A Kingdom It Was" (1960) [p]
Galway Kinnell (USA, 1927): "The Avenue Bearing the Initial of Christ into the New World" (1960) [p]
Galway Kinnell (USA, 1927): "The Book of Nightmares" (1971) [p] +
William-Stanley Merwin (USA, 1927): "A Mask for Janus" (1952) [p]
William-Stanley Merwin (USA, 1927): "The Moving Target" (1963) [p] +
William-Stanley Merwin (USA, 1927): "The Carrier of Ladders" (1970) [p] +
William-Stanley Merwin (USA, 1927): "The Shadow of Sirius" (2008) [p]
May Swenson (USA, 1927): "Another Animal" (1954) [p]
Armand Schwerner (USA, 1927): "Tables" (1999) [p]
Charles Tomlinson (Britain, 1927): "The Necklace" (1955) [p]
Charles Tomlinson (Britain, 1927): "Skywriting" (2003) [p]
Daniel Keyes (USA, 1927): "Flowers for Algernon" (1966)
Thomas Rogers (USA, 1927): "Confessions of a Child of the Century" (1972)
Thomas Rogers (USA, 1927): "At The Shores" (1980)
Alfred Chester (USA, 1928): "The Exquisite Corpse" (1967)
Ruth Weiss (Germany, 1928): "Desert Journal" (1977) [p]
Ruth Weiss (Germany, 1928): "The Brink" (1960) [p]
Susan Taubes (Hungary, 1928): "Divorcing" (1969) +
Philip Levine (USA, 1928): "They Feed They Lion" (1972) [p]
Philip Levine (USA, 1928): "What Work Is" (1991) [p]
Dina Mehta (India, 1928): "Brides are not for Burning" (1993) [t]
Jayanta Mahapatra (India, 1928): "Relationship" (1981) [p]
Charles Dyer (Britain, 1928): "Staircase" (1966) [t]
Frank Marcus (Britain, 1928): "The Killing of Sister George" (1965) [t]
Andrew Salkey (Jamaica, 1928): "A Quality of Violence" (1959)
Andrew Salkey (Jamaica, 1928): "An Escape to an Autumn Pavement" (1960)
Mike Doyle (New Zealand, 1928): "Stonedancer" (1976) [p]
Stan Barstow (Britain, 1928): "A Kind Of Loving" (1960)
Iain-Crichton Smith (Britain, 1928): "Deer on the High Hills" (1962) [p]
Iain-Crichton Smith (Britain, 1928): "Notebooks of Robinson Crusoe" (1974) [p]
Irving Feldman (USA, 1928): "The Pripet Marshes" (1965) [p]
Donald Hall (USA, 1928): "The One Day" (1988) [p]
Anita Brookner (Britain, 1928): "Providence" (1982) +
Anita Brookner (Britain, 1928): "Hotel du Lac" (1984) +
Anita Brookner (Britain, 1928): "Family and Friends" (1985)
Anita Brookner (Britain, 1928): "Incidents in the Rue Laugier" (1995)
Jane Gardam (Britain, 1928): "God on the Rocks" (1978)
Jane Gardam (Britain, 1928): "Crusoe's Daughter" (1985)
Jane Gardam (Britain, 1928): "Queen of the Tambourine" (1991) +
James Kennaway (Britain, 1928): "Tunes of Glory" (1956)
William Kennedy (USA, 1928): "Legs" (1975)
William Kennedy (USA, 1928): "Billy Phelan's Greatest Game" (1978) +
William Kennedy (USA, 1928): "Ironweed" (1983) +
William Kennedy (USA, 1928): "Flaming Corsage" (1996)
Cynthia Ozick (USA, 1928): "Trust" (1966) +
Cynthia Ozick (USA, 1928): "Envy" (1969)
Cynthia Ozick (USA, 1928): "The Cannibal Galaxy" (1983)
Cynthia Ozick (USA, 1928): "The Messiah of Stockholm" (1987) +
Cynthia Ozick (USA, 1928): "The Puttermesser Papers" (1997)
Hubert Selby (USA, 1928): "Last Exit to Brooklyn" (1964) +
Hubert Selby (USA, 1928): "The Room" (1971)
Hubert Selby (USA, 1928): "Demon" (1976)
Alan Sillitoe (Britain, 1928): "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning" (1958) +
Alan Sillitoe (Britain, 1928): "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner" (1959)
William Trevor (Ireland, 1928): "Old Boys" (1964)
William Trevor (Ireland, 1928): "The Boarding House" (1965)
William Trevor (Ireland, 1928): "The Love Department" (1967)
William Trevor (Ireland, 1928): "Mrs Eckdorf in O'Neill's Hotel" (1970)
William Trevor (Ireland, 1928): "The Children of Dynmouth" (1976) +
William Trevor (Ireland, 1928): "Fools of Fortune" (1983) +
William Trevor (Ireland, 1928): "Felicia's Journey" (1994) +
William Trevor (Ireland, 1928): "The Hill Bachelors" (2001)
Edward Albee (USA, 1928): "Delicate Balance" (1965) [t]
Edward Albee (USA, 1928): "Seascape" (1975) [t]
Edward Albee (USA, 1928): "Three Tall Women" (1991) [t]
Edward Albee (USA, 1928): "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" (1962) [t] +
David Mercer (Britain, 1928): "Flint" (1970) [t] +
David Mercer (Britain, 1928): "A Suitable Case for Treatment" (1962) [t] +
David Mercer (Britain, 1928): "In Two Minds" (1967) [t] +
Thomas Kinsella (Ireland, 1928): "Another September" (1958) [p]
Thomas Kinsella (Ireland, 1928): "Notes from the Land of the Dead" (1972) [p]
Thomas Kinsella (Ireland, 1928): "Peppercanister Poems" (1978) [p]
Anne Sexton (USA, 1928): "Live or Die" (1966) [p] +
Anne Sexton (USA, 1928):"The Death Notebooks" (1974) [p]
Anne Sexton (USA, 1928):"The Awful Rowing Toward God" (1974) [p]
Philip Dick (USA, 1928): "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" (1968) +
Philip Dick (USA, 1928): "Minority Report" (1958)
Philip Dick (USA, 1928): "The Simulacra" (1964)
Philip Dick (USA, 1928): "Ubik" (1969) +
Philip Dick (USA, 1928): "A Maze of Death" (1970)
Philip Dick (USA, 1928): "Flow My Tears" (1974)
Philip Dick (USA, 1928): "A Scanner Darkly" (1977)
Philip Dick (USA, 1928): "Valis" (1981) +
James White (Britain, 1928): "Dream Millenium" (1974)
Maya Angelou (USA, 1928): "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" (1969) [p]
Maya Angelou (USA, 1928): "Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie" (1971) [p]
Jane Gardam (Britain, 1928): "God on the Rocks" (1978)
Jane Gardam (Britain, 1928): "The Queen of the Tambourine" (1991)
Asif Currimbhoy (India, 1928): "Goa" (1964) [t]
Douglas Jones (Canada, 1929): "A Throw of Particles" (1983) [p]
Richard Howard (USA, 1929): "Untitled Subjects" (1969) [p]
Ernest Callenbach (USA, 1929): "Ecotopia - The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston" (1975)
Richard Howard (USA, 1929): "Findings" (1971) [p]
Alvin Feinman (USA, 1929): "Preambles" (1964) [p]
Attipat-Krishnaswami Ramanujan (India, 1929): "The Striders" (1966) [p] +
Attipat-Krishnaswami Ramanujan (India, 1929): "Second Sight" (1986) [p]
Lynne Banks (Britain, 1929): "The L-shaped Room" (1960)
Ursula-Askham Fanthorpe (Britain, 1929): "Side Effects" (1978) [p]
Ursula LeGuin (USA, 1929): "A Wizard of Earthsea" (1968)
Ursula LeGuin (USA, 1929): "Left Hand of Darkness" (1969) +
Alvin Feinman (USA, 1929): " Preambles and Other Poem" (1964) [p]
Peter Porter (Australia, 1929): "Words Without Music" (1968) [p]
Peter Porter (Australia, 1929): "Preaching to the Converted" (1972) [p]
Brigid Brophy (Britain, 1929): "Hackenfeller's Ape" (1953)
Brigid Brophy (Britain, 1929): "Flesh" (1962)
Brigid Brophy (Britain, 1929): "The Finishing Touch" (1963)
Brigid Brophy (Britain, 1929): "The Snow Ball" (1964) +
Brigid Brophy (Britain, 1929): "In Transit" (1969)
Brigid Brophy (Britain, 1929): "Palace Without Chairs" (1978) +
Frederick Exley (USA, 1929): "A Fan's Notes" (1968)
Dan Jacobson (South Africa, 1929): "The Beginners" (1966)
Dan Jacobson (South Africa, 1929): "The Rape of Tamar" (1970) +
Dan Jacobson (South Africa, 1929): "The Confessions of Josef Baisz" (1977)
Chaim Potok (USA, 1929): "The Promise" (1970)
Chaim Potok (USA, 1929): "The Name is Asher Lev" (1972)
Tom Sharpe (Britain, 1929): "Riotous Assembly" (1971)
Gilbert Sorrentino (USA, 1929): "Mulligan's Stew" (1979)
George Steiner (USA, 1929): "The Portage to San Cristobal of A.H." (1981)
Keith Waterhouse (Britain, 1929): "Billy Liar" (1959)
Brian Friel (Ireland, 1929): "Philadelphia Here I Come" (1964) [t] +
Brian Friel (Ireland, 1929): "Freedom fo the city" (1973) [t]
Brian Friel (Britain, 1929): "Translations" (1980) [t]
Brian Friel (Ireland, 1929): "Dancing at Lughnasa" (1990) [t] +
Brian Friel (Britain, 1929): "Molly Sweeney" (1994) [t] +
John Osborne (Britain, 1929): "Look Back in Anger" (1956) [t] +
John Osborne (Britain, 1929): "The Entertainer" (1957) [t] +
John Osborne (Britain, 1929): "Inadmissible Evidence" (1964) [t]
Ira Levin (USA, 1929): "A Kiss Before Dying" (1953)
Ira Levin (USA, 1929): "Rosemary's Baby" (1967) +
Ira Levin (USA, 1929): "The Stepford Wives" (1972) +
Ira Levin (USA, 1929): "The Boys From Brazil" (1976)
Ira Levin (USA, 1929): "Sliver" (1991)
Ira Levin (USA, 1929): "Death Trap" (1978) [t] +
Ed Dorn (USA, 1929): "Gunslinger" (1975) [p] +
Thom Gunn (Britain, 1929): "The Sense of Movement" (1957) [p] +
Thom Gunn (Britain, 1929): "My Sad Captains" (1961) [p]
Thom Gunn (Britain, 1929): "The Man With Night Sweats" (1992) [p]
John Montague (Britain, 1929): "The Rough Field" (1972) [p]
John Montague (Britain, 1929): "The Dead Kingdom" (1984) [p]
John Hollander (USA, 1929): "A Crackling of Thorns" (1958) [p]
John Hollander (USA, 1929): "Type of Shapes" (1969) [p]
John Hollander (USA, 1929): "Reflections on Espionage" (1976) [p]
John Hollander (USA, 1929): "Spectral Emanations" (1978) [p]
John Hollander (USA, 1929): "Powers of Thirteen" (1983) [p] +
John Hollander (USA, 1929): "In Time and Place" (1986) [p] +
John Hollander (USA, 1929): "Tesserae" (1988) [p]
Adrienne Rich (USA, 1929): "Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law" (1963) [p] +
Adrienne Rich (USA, 1929): "Diving into the Wreck" (1973) [p]
Adrienne Rich (USA, 1929): "An Atlas of the Difficult world" (1991) [p] +
Ursula Le Guin (USA, 1929): "The Left Hand of Darkness" (1969)

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