A Brief History of English-language Literature

Continued from this page Maxine Hong (USA, 1940): "China Men" (1980) David Budbill (USA, 1940): "Why I Came to Judevine" (1987) [p] Iliassa Sequin (Greece, 1940): "Quintets" (1991) [p] Bobbie-Ann Mason (USA, 1940): "In Country" (1985) David Rabe (USA, 1940): "Sticks and Bones" (1972) [t] David Rabe (USA, 1940): "In the Boom Boom Room" (1974) [t] David Rabe (USA, 1940): "Streamers" (1977) [t] + David Rabe (USA, 1940): "Hurlyburly" (1985) [t] Thomas Disch (USA, 1940): "On Wings of Song" (1979) Gieve Patel (India, 1940): "Mirrored Mirroring" (1991) [p] Gieve Patel (India, 1940): "Savaksa" (1982) [t] Adil Jussawalla (India, 1940): "Missing Person" (1976) [p] Bill Knott (USA, 1940): "The Naomi Poems" (1968) [p] Fanny Howe (USA, 1940): "Second Childhood" (2014) [p] Fanny Howe (USA, 1940): "Forged" (1999) [p] Fanny Howe (USA, 1940): "Saving History" (1993) Fanny Howe (USA, 1940): "The Deep North" (1988) Russell Banks (USA, 1940): "Affliction" (1990) Russell Banks (USA, 1940): "The Sweet Hereafter" (1992) Angela Carter (Britain, 1940): "The Magic Toyshop" (1967) Angela Carter (Britain, 1940): "Nights at the Circus" (1984) + Angela Carter (Britain, 1940): "Wise Children" (1991) Bruce Chatwin (Britain, 1940): "The Viceroy of Ouidah" (1980) Bruce Chatwin (Britain, 1940): "On the Black Hill" (1982) + Bruce Chatwin (Britain, 1940): "Utz" (1988) + John Coetzee (South Africa, 1940): "In the Heart of the Country" (1977) + John Coetzee (South Africa, 1940): "Waiting for the Barbarians" (1980) + John Coetzee (South Africa, 1940): "Life and Times of Michele K" (1983) + John Coetzee (South Africa, 1940): "The Age of Iron" (1990) John Coetzee (South Africa, 1940): "Disgrace" (1999) + David Cook (Britain, 1940): "Albert's Memorial" (1972) + David Cook (Britain, 1940): "Happy Endings" (1974) David Cook (Britain, 1940): "Walter" (1978) Rachel Ingalls (USA, 1940): "Mrs Caliban" (1982) + Rachel Ingalls (USA, 1940): "Binstead’s Safari" (1983) Rich Kostelanetz (USA, 1940): "Imaged Words and Worded Images" (1970) [p] Thomas McGuane (USA, 1940): "Keep the Change" (1989) Thomas McGuane (USA, 1940): "Ninety-two in the Shade" (1973) Thomas McGuane (USA, 1940): "Something to be Desired" (1984) Thomas McGuane (USA, 1940): "Sporting Club" (1969) Thomas McGuane (USA, 1940): "Bushwhacked Piano" (1971) Bharati Mukherjee (India, 1940): "Jasmine" (1989) Bharati Mukherjee (India, 1940): "The Holder of the World" (1993) + David Plante (USA, 1940): "The Francoeur Trilogy" (1982) + Edmund White (USA, 1940): "Forgetting Elena" (1973) + Edmund White (USA, 1940): "A Boy's Own Story" (1982) Edmund White (USA, 1940): "Caracole" (1985) Edmund White (USA, 1940): "Nocturnes for the King of Naples" (1988) Jack Hibberd (Australia, 1940): "A Stretch of the Imagination" (1973) [t] + Jack Hibberd (Australia, 1940): "Dimboola" (1974) [t] Oswald Mtshali (South Africa, 1940): "Sounds of a Cowhide Drum" (1971) [p] Mark Medoff (USA, 1940): "When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder" (1973) [t] Mark Medoff (USA, 1940): "Children of a Lesser God" (1980) [t] + Mark Medoff (USA, 1940): "The Homage That Follows" (1986) [t] Stephen Dobyns (USA, 1941): "Concurring Beasts" (1972) [p] Robert Grenier (USA, 1941): "A Day At The Beach" (1985) [p] Yusef Komunyakaa (USA, 1941): "Dien Cai Dau" (1988) [p] Diane Glancy (USA, 1941): "Offering" (1988) [p] John-Edgar Wideman (USA, 1941): "Sent for You Yesterday" (1983) + John-Edgar Wideman (USA, 1941): "Philadelphia Fire" (1990) Gregory Benford (USA, 1941): "Timescape" (1980) Piers-Paul Read (Britain, 1941): "A Married Man" (1979) Piers-Paul Read (Britain, 1941): "Season in the West" (1988) Paul Theroux (USA, 1941): "Picture Palace" (1979) + Paul Theroux (USA, 1941): "Mosquito Coast" (1982) Lyn Hejinian (USA, 1941): "My Life" (1980) [p] Simon Ortiz (USA, 1941): "From Sand Creek" (1981) [p] Barbara Trapido (South Africa, 1941): "Brother of the More Famous Jack" (1982) Barbara Trapido (South Africa, 1941): "The Travelling Hornplayer" (1998) Anne Tyler (USA, 1941): "Earthly Possessions" (1977) Anne Tyler (USA, 1941): "Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant" (1982) + Anne Tyler (USA, 1941): "The Accidental Tourist" (1985) Anne Tyler (USA, 1941): "The Breathing Lessons" (1988) + James McCourt (USA, 1941): "Mawrdew Czgowchwz" (1975) John Peck (USA, 1941): "The Broken Blockhouse Wall" (1978) [p] John Peck (USA, 1941): "Poems and Translations of Hi Lo" (1991) [p] John Peck (USA, 1941): "Cantilena" (2016) [p] + Gary Wolf (USA, 1941): "Who Censored Roger Rabbit?" (1981) Heathcote Williams (Britain, 1941): "AC/DC" (1970) [t] Anne Rice (USA, 1941): "Interview With the Vampire" (1976) Robert Hass (USA, 1941): "Field Guide" (1973) [p] Robert Hass (USA, 1941): "Praise" (1979) [p] Robert Hass (USA, 1941): "Sun Under Wood" (1996) [p] + James Hogan (Britain, 1941): " Code of the Lifemaker" (1983) Gwendolyn MacEwen (Canada, 1941): "Afterworlds" (1987) [p] Don McKay (Canada, 1942): "Field Marks" (2006) [p] John Taggart (USA, 1942): "Peace on Earth" (1981) [p] Stephanie Strickland (USA, 1942): "True North" (1997) [p] Ama-Ata Aidoo (Ghana, 1942): "The Dilemma of a Ghost" (1965) [t] Ama-Ata Aidoo (Ghana, 1942): "Anowa" (1970) [t] Ama-Ata Aidoo (Ghana, 1942): "Our Sister Killjoy" (1977) Ama-Ata Aidoo (Ghana, 1942): "Changes" (1992) Daphne Marlatt (Canada, 1942): "Steveston" (1974) [p] John Crowley (USA, 1942): "The Solitudes" (1987) John Crowley (USA, 1942): "Love and Sleep" (1994) David Harsent (Britain, 1942): "Marriage" (2002) [p] David Harsent (Britain, 1942): "Legion" (2005) [p] David Harsent (Britain, 1942): "Fire Songs" (2014) [p] Hugo Williams (Britain, 1942): "Symptoms of Love" (1965) [p] Hugo Williams (Britain, 1942): "Billy's Rain" (1999) [p] Susan Hill (Britain, 1942): "I'm the King of the Castle" (1970) Susan Hill (Britain, 1942): "Strange Meeting" (1971) Susan Hill (Britain, 1942): "The Bird of Night" (1972) + Susan Hill (Britain, 1942): "Woman in Black" (1983) Janette-Turner Hospital (Australia, 1942): "Charades" (1989) Janette-Turner Hospital (Australia, 1942): "The Last Magician" (1992) + Judy Malloy (USA, 1942): "Uncle Roger" (1986) Sharon Olds (USA, 1942): "Satan Says" (1980) [p] Sharon Olds (USA, 1942): "Father" (1992) [p] Sharon Olds (USA, 1942): "Stag's Leap" (2012) [p] John Irving (USA, 1942): "The Water-method Man" (1972) John Irving (USA, 1942): "The World According to Garp" (1978) + John Irving (USA, 1942): "Hotel New Hampshire" (1981) John Irving (USA, 1942): "Cider House Rules" (1985) John Irving (USA, 1942): "Prayer for Owen Meany" (1989) Howard Jacobson (Britain, 1942): "Coming From Behind" (1983) Howard Jacobson (Britain, 1942): "Peeping Tom" (1984) + Howard Jacobson (Britain, 1942): "Redback" (1986) Howard Jacobson (Britain, 1942): "The Act of Love" (2008) + Erica Jong (USA, 1942): "Fear of Flying" (1974) Garrison Keillor (USA, 1942): "Lake Wobegon Days" (1985) Bernar MacLaverty (Britain, 1942): "Lamb" (1980) Bernar MacLaverty (Britain, 1942): "Cal" (1983) Anita Mason (Britain, 1942): "The Illusionist" (1983) Toni Morrison (USA, 1942): "The Bluest Eyes" (1970) + Toni Morrison (USA, 1942): "Sula" (1973) + Toni Morrison (USA, 1942): "Song of Solomon" (1977) + Toni Morrison (USA, 1942): "Tar Baby" (1981) + Toni Morrison (USA, 1942): "Beloved" (1987) ++ Toni Morrison (USA, 1942): "Jazz" (1992) Toni Morrison (USA, 1942): "Paradise" (1997) Toni Morrison (USA, 1942): "Mercy" (2008) David Williamson (Australia, 1942): "The Coming of Stork" (1970) [t] David Williamson (Australia, 1942): "Don's Party" (1971) [t] David Williamson (Australia, 1942): "The Removalists" (1972) [t] + David Williamson (Australia, 1942): "The Club" (1977) [t] David Williamson (Australia, 1942): "Travelling North" (1979) [t] David Williamson (Australia, 1942): "Emerald City" (1987) [t] David Williamson (Australia, 1942): "Brilliant Lies" (1993) [t] David Williamson (Australia, 1942): "Sanctuary" (1994) [t] Douglas Dunn (Britain, 1942): "St Kilda's Parliament" (1981) [p] Douglas Dunn (Britain, 1942): "Elegies" (1985) [p] + Douglas Dunn (Britain, 1942): "Dante's Drum Kit" (1993) [p] Michael Crichton (USA, 1942): "The Andromeda Strain" (1969) Michael Crichton (USA, 1942): "Jurassic Park" (1990) Samuel Delany (USA, 1942): "Stars in My Pocket" (1984) Samuel Delany (USA, 1942): "Nova" (1968) Samuel Delany (USA, 1942): "Dhalgren" (1975) Sena Jeter Naslund (USA, 1942): "Ahab's Wife" (1999) Norman Loftis (USA, 1943): "Black Anima" (1973) [p] Andrew Holleran/ Eric Garber (USA, 1943): "Dancer from the Dance" (1978) Wallace Shawn (USA, 1943): "The Designated Mourner" (1997) [t] Wallace Shawn (USA, 1943): "Marie and Bruce" (1978) [t] Louise Gluck (USA, 1943): "The House on Marshland" (1975) [p] Louise Gluck (USA, 1943): "Descending Figure" (1980) [p] Louise Gluck (USA, 1943): "The Triumph of Achilles" (1985) [p] + Louise Gluck (USA, 1943): "The Wild Iris" (1992) [p] + Louise Gluck (USA, 1943): "Vita Nova" (1999) [p] Louise Gluck (USA, 1943): "The Seven Ages" (2001) [p] Louise Gluck (USA, 1943): "Averno " (2006) [p] + Christopher Priest (Britain, 1943): "A Dream of Wessex" (1977) Christopher Priest (Britain, 1943): "The Prestige" (1995) Mike Leigh (Britain, 1943): "Abigail's Party" (1977) [t] Pat Barker (Britain, 1943): "Union Street" (1982) Pat Barker (Britain, 1943): "The Century's Daughter" (1986) + Pat Barker (Britain, 1943): "Regeneration" (1991) Pat Barker (Britain, 1943): "The Eye In The Door" (1993) Pat Barker (Britain, 1943): "The Ghost Road" (1995) Peter Carey (Australia, 1943): "Bliss" (1981) Peter Carey (Australia, 1943): "The Silence of the Girls" (2018) Peter Carey (Australia, 1943): "Illywhacker" (1986) ++ Peter Carey (Australia, 1943): "Oscar and Lucinda" (1988) + Peter Carey (Australia, 1943): "The Tax Inspector" (1992) Peter Carey (Australia, 1943): "The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith" (1994) Peter Carey (Australia, 1943): "True History Of The Kelly Gang" (2000) Justin Cartwright (South Africa, 1943): "Interior" (1988) Justin Cartwright (South Africa, 1943): "Look at it This Way" (1990) Justin Cartwright (South Africa, 1943): "Masai Dreaming" (1993) + Fredrick Barthelme (USA, 1943): "Two Against One" (1988) Fredrick Barthelme (USA, 1943): "Second Marriage" (1984) Pete Dexter (USA, 1943): "God's Pocket" (1984) Pete Dexter (USA, 1943): "Paris Trout" (1988) + Mary Flanagan (USA, 1943): "Rose Reason" (1991) Steven Millhauser (USA, 1943): "Edwin Mullhouse" (1972) Steven Millhauser (USA, 1943): "Martin Dressler" (1996) Michael Ondaatje (Canada, 1943): "The Dainty Monster" (1967) [p] Michael Ondaatje (Canada, 1943): "The Left Handed Poems" (1970) [p] Michael Ondaatje (Canada, 1943): "There's a Trick With A Knife" (1979) [p] Michael Ondaatje (Canada, 1943): "The Collected Works of Billy the Kid" (1970) [p] Michael Ondaatje (Canada, 1943): "In the Skin of a Lion" (1987) Michael Ondaatje (Canada, 1943): "The English Patient" (1992) + Michael Ondaatje (Canada, 1943): "Anil's Ghost" (2000) Iain Sinclair (Britain, 1943): "White Chappell Scarlet Tracings" (1987) + Iain Sinclair (Britain, 1943): "Downriver" (1991) Rose Tremain (Britain, 1943): "Restoration" (1989) Rose Tremain (Britain, 1943): "Music and Silence" (1999) Marilynne Robinson (USA, 1943): "Housekeeping" (1980) + Marilynne Robinson (USA, 1943): "Gilead" (2004) + Marilynne Robinson (USA, 1943): "Home" (2008) Sam Shepard (USA, 1943): "La Turista" (1967) [t] Sam Shepard (USA, 1943): "Operation Sidewinder" (1970) [t] Sam Shepard (USA, 1943): "The Tooth of Crime" (1972) [t] Sam Shepard (USA, 1943): "Curse of the Starving Class" (1978) [t] Sam Shepard (USA, 1943): "Buried Child" (1979) [t] + Sam Shepard (USA, 1943): "True West" (1980) [t] + Sam Shepard (USA, 1943): "Fool for Love" (1983) [t] + Sam Shepard (USA, 1943): "A Life of the Mind" (1985) [t] Sam Shepard (USA, 1943): "Simpatico" (1993) [t] Michael Wilcox (Britain, 1943): "Lent" (1983) [t] Nikki Giovanni (USA, 1943): "Black Feeling Black Talk Black Judgement" (1970) [p] Wallace Shawn (USA, 1943): "Aunt Dan and Lemon" (1985) [t] Wallace Shawn (USA, 1943): "The Designated Mourner" (2000) [t] Alfred Corn (USA, 1943): "A Call in the Midst of the Crowd" (1978) [p] Michael Palmer (USA, 1943): "Sun" (1988) [p] Michael Palmer (USA, 1943): "At Passages" (1995) [p] + David Sweetman (Britain, 1943): "Looking into the Deep End" (1981) [p] Timoshenko Aslanides (Australia, 1943): "Passacaglia and Fugue" (1979) [p] Rikki Ducornet/ Erica DeGre (USA, 1943): "Phosphor in Dreamland" (1995) Gilbert Adair (Britain, 1944): "Love and Death on Long Island" (1990) Carol Rumens (Britain, 1944): "From Berlin to Heaven" (1990) [p] Witi Ihimaera (New Zealand, 1944): "Tangi" (1973) David Constantine (Britain, 1944): "Madder" (1987) [p] Kit Wright (Britain, 1944): "The Bear Looked Over the Mountain" (1977) [p] Lisa Alther (USA, 1944): "Kinflicks" (1976) Charles Stein (USA, 1944): "The Hat Rack Tree" (1994) [p] Buchi Emecheta (Nigeria, 1944): "The Slave Girl" (1977) Buchi Emecheta (Nigeria, 1944): "Gwendolen" (1989) Richard Ford (USA, 1944): "Sportswriter" (1986) Richard Ford (USA, 1944): "Independence Day" (1996) + Richard Ford (USA, 1944): "Wildlife" (1990) Douglas Crase (USA, 1944): "The Revisionist" (1981) [p] Leslie Scalapino (USA, 1944): "Way" (1988) [p] Christopher Hope (South Africa, 1944): "Kruger's Alp" (1984) + Christopher Hope (South Africa, 1944): "My Chocolate Redeemer" (1989) Christopher Hope (South Africa, 1944): "Serenity House" (1992) Shena MacKay (Britain, 1944): "Redhill Rococo" (1987) Armistead Maupin (USA, 1944): "Tales of the City" (1978) Sue Miller (USA, 1944): "Good Mother" (1986) Sue Miller (USA, 1944): "Family Pictures" (1990) Alice Walker (USA, 1944): "Third Life of George Copeland" (1970) Alice Walker (USA, 1944): "Meridian" (1976) Alice Walker (USA, 1944): "The Color Purple" (1981) Alice Walker (USA, 1944): "Temple of My Familiar" (1989) Alice Walker (USA, 1944): "Possessing the Secret of Joy" (1992) Alexander Buzo (Australia, 1944): "Norm and Ahmed" (1967) [t] Paul Durcan (Ireland, 1944): "The Berlin Wall Cafe'" (1985) [p] Craig Raine (Britain, 1944): "The Onion, Memory" (1978) [p] Craig Raine (Britain, 1944): "A Martian Sends a Postcard Home" (1979) [p] + Craig Raine (Britain, 1944): "History" (1994) [p] Mongane-Wally Serote (South Africa, 1944): "Yakhal'Inkomo" (1972) [p] + Mongane-Wally Serote (South Africa, 1944): "No Baby Must Weep" (1975) [p] Mongane-Wally Serote (South Africa, 1944): ""History is the Home Address" (2004) [p] Farrukh Dhondy (India, 1944): "Bombay Duck" (1990) Eavan Boland (Ireland, 1944): "The Historians" (2020) [p] + Eavan Boland (Ireland, 1944): "In a Time of Violence" (1994) [p] Eavan Boland (Ireland, 1944): "Against Love Poetry" (2001) [p] Vernor Vinge (USA, 1944): "True Names" (1981) Vernor Vinge (USA, 1944): "A Fire Upon the Deep" (1992) Vernor Vinge (USA, 1944): "A Deepness in the Sky" (1999) Vernor Vinge (USA, 1944): "Fast Times at Fairmont High" (2002) Alice Notley (USA, 1945): "The Descent of Alette" (1996) [p] + Alice Notley (USA, 1945): "For the Ride" (2020) [p] Alice Notley (USA, 1945): "Desamere" (1995) [p] John Koethe (USA, 1945): "Beyond Belief" (2022) [p] Susanna Moore (USA, 1945): "In the Cut" (1995) Bernadette Mayer (USA, 1945): "A Bernadette Mayer Reader" (1992) [p] Bernadette Mayer (USA, 1945): book-length poem "Midwinter Day" (1982) [p] + Bernadette Mayer (USA, 1945): "Utopia" (1984) [p] Bernadette Mayer (USA, 1945): prose poems "The Desire of Mothers to Please Others in Letters" (1994) [p] Bernadette Mayer (USA, 1945): "Scarlet Tanager" (2005) [p] Nuruddin Farah (Somalia, 1945): "From a Crooked Rib (1970) + Nuruddin Farah (Somalia, 1945): "Sweet and Sour Milk" (1979) Nuruddin Farah (Somalia, 1945): "Maps" (1986) + Connie Willis (USA, 1945): "Doomsday Book" (1992) Anne Waldman (USA, 1945): "The Iovis Trilogy" (2011) [p] Sandy McClatchy (USA, 1945): "The Rest of the Way" (1992) [p] Joan Murray (USA, 1945): "Queen of the Mist" (1999) [p] Kay Ryan (USA, 1945): "Flamingo Watchingaps" (1994) [p] Kay Ryan (USA, 1945): "Jam Jar Lifeboat & Other Novelties Exposed" (2008) [p] Joan Silber (USA, 1945): "The Size of the World" (2008) John Banville (Ireland, 1945): "Doctor Copernicus" (1976) John Banville (Ireland, 1945): "Kepler" (1981) + John Banville (Ireland, 1945): "The Newton Letter" (1981) John Banville (Ireland, 1945): "MEfisto" (1986) John Banville (Ireland, 1945): "The Invention of Solitude" (1982) John Banville (Ireland, 1945): "The Book of Evidence" (1989) + John Banville (Ireland, 1945): "The Sea" (2005) Annie Dillard (USA, 1945): "Living By Fiction" (1982) Annie Dillard (USA, 1945): "Tinker Creek" (1974) Jenny Diski (Britain, 1945): "Nothing Natural" (1986) Andrew Harvey (Britain, 1945): "Burning Houses" (1985) Shiva Naipaul (India, 1945): "Fireflies" (1970) Shiva Naipaul (India, 1945): "The Chip-Chip Gatherers" (1973) Tobias Wolff (USA, 1945): "Barracks Thief" (1984) Wendy Cope (Britain, 1945): "Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis" (1986) [p] Robert Olen Butler (USA, 1945): "A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain" (1992) August Wilson (USA, 1945): "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" (1982) [t] August Wilson (USA, 1945): "Fences" (1985) [t] + August Wilson (USA, 1945): "Joe Turner's Come and Gone" (1988) [t] August Wilson (USA, 1945): "The Piano Lesson" (1990) [t] + August Wilson (USA, 1945): "Seven Guitars" (1996) [t] + August Wilson (USA, 1945): "Radio Golf" (2005) [t] Katherine Dunn (USA, 1945): "Geek Love" (1989) Katherine Dunn (USA, 1945): "Attic" (1970) Anita Shreve (USA, 1946): "The Weight of Water" (1997) Rudy Rucker (USA, 1946): "Software" (1982) Rudy Rucker (USA, 1946): "Wetware" (1988) Rudy Rucker (USA, 1946): "Postsingular" (2007) Rudy Rucker (USA, 1946): "Hylozoic" (2009) Julian Barnes (Britain, 1946): "Metroland" (1980) Julian Barnes (Britain, 1946): "Flaubert's Parrot" (1985) + Julian Barnes (Britain, 1946): "A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters" (1989) + Julian Barnes (Britain, 1946): "Talking It Over" (1991) Julian Barnes (Britain, 1946): "The Sense of an Ending" (2011) Julian Barnes (Britain, 1946): "Levels of Life" (2013) Jim Crace (Britain, 1946): "Continent" (1986) + Jim Crace (Britain, 1946): "The Gift of Stones" (1988) Jim Crace (Britain, 1946): "Being Dead" (1997) Alan Judd (Britain, 1946): "A Breed of Heroes" (1981) Alan Judd (Britain, 1946): "Short of Glory" (1984) + Alan Judd (Britain, 1946): "Tango" (1989) James Kelman (Britain, 1946): "A Disaffection" (1989) James Kelman (Britain, 1946): "How Late It Was How Late" (1994) Tim O'Brien Tim (USA, 1946): "Northern Lights" (1974) Marina Warner (Britain, 1946): "The Lost Father" (1988) Howard Barker (Britain, 1946): "Scenes From An Execution" (1984) [t] Alan Bleasdale (Britain, 1946): "Having A Ball" (1981) [t] Alan Bleasdale (Britain, 1946): "Are You Lonesome Tonight" (1985) [t] Christopher Hampton (Britain, 1946): "When Did You Last See My Mother" (1966) [t] Christopher Hampton (Britain, 1946): "The Philanthropist" (1970) [t] + Christopher Hampton (Britain, 1946): "Savages" (1973) [t] Christopher Hampton (Britain, 1946): "The Talking Cure" (2002) [t] Stephen King (USA, 1946): "Salem's Lot" (1975) Stephen King (USA, 1946): "The Shining" (1977) + Stephen King (USA, 1946): "It" (1986) Stephen King (USA, 1946): "The Gunslinger" (1982) Stephen King (USA, 1946): "The Stand" (1978) Brian Patten (Britain, 1946): "Armada" (1996) [p] Peter Reading (Britain, 1946): "Diplopic" (1983) [p] + Peter Reading (Britain, 1946): "Stet" (1986) [p] + Peter Reading (Britain, 1946): "Ukulele Music" (1985) Peter Reading (Britain, 1946): "Final Demands" (1988) Rudy Rucker (USA, 1946): "Hollow Earth" (1990) Patrick Neate (Britain, 1946): "Twelve Bar Blues" (2001) Marina Lewycka (Britain, 1946): "A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian" (2005) Philip Pullman (Britain, 1946): "Northern Lights/ The Golden Compass" (1996) Philip Pullman (Britain, 1946): "The Amber Spyglass" (2000) + David Zieroth (Canada, 1946): "The Fly in Autumn" (2009) [p] Pierre Joris (USA, 1946): "Poasis" (2001) [p] Wanda Coleman (USA, 1946): "Mercurochrome" (2001) [p] Sharon Thesen (Canada, 1946): "The Beginning of the Long Dash" (1987) [p] Sharon Thesen (Canada, 1946): "The Good Bacteria" (2006) [p] Mary Jo Bang (USA, 1946): "The Bride of E" (2009) [p] Francine Prose (USA, 1947): "The Glorious Ones" (1974) Lydia Davis (USA, 1947): "The Thirteenth Woman" (1976) Rae Armantrout (USA, 1947): "Versed" (2009) [p] Rae Armantrout (USA, 1947): "Wobble" (2018) [p] Octavia Butler (USA, 1947): "Kindred" (1979) Octavia Butler (USA, 1947): "Bloodchild" (1984) George Walker (Canada, 1947): "Zastrozzi The Master of Discipline" (1977) [t] George Walker (Canada, 1947): "Criminals in Love" (1985) [t] + George Walker (Canada, 1947): "Love and Anger" (1989) [t] George Walker (Canada, 1947): "Suburban Motel" (1997) [t] Charles Palliser (USA, 1947): "Quincunx" (1989) Revathy Gopal (India, 1947): "I Would Know You Anywhere" (2000) [p] Shobha De (India, 1947): "Sultry Days" (1994) Patricia Anthony (USA, 1947): "Cold Allies" (1993) Pritish Nandy (India, 1947): "From the Outer Bank of the Brahmaputra" (1969) [p] Michael Ignatieff (Canada, 1947): "Scar Tissue" (1993) Stephen Donaldson (USA, 1947): "Chronicles of Thomas Convenant" (1977) Ann Beattie (USA, 1947): "Chilly Scenes" (1976) Ann Beattie (USA, 1947): "Love Always" (1985) Nathaniel Mackey (USA, 1947): "School of Udhra" (1993) [p] Nathaniel Mackey (USA, 1947): "Splay Anthem" (2006) [p] Nathaniel Mackey (USA, 1947): "Double Trio" (2018) [p] + Nathaniel Mackey (USA, 1947): "Mu" (ongoing) [p] Nathaniel Mackey (USA, 1947): "Song of the Andoumboulou" (ongoing) [p] Kathy Acker (USA, 1947): "Blood and Guts in High School" (1984) Kathy Acker (USA, 1947): "My Death My Life by PierPaolo Pasolini" (1984) Paul Auster (USA, 1947): "In the Country Of Last Things" (1988) Paul Auster (USA, 1947): "New York Trilogy" (1986) + Paul Auster (USA, 1947): "Moon Palace" (1989) Paul Auster (USA, 1947): "Music of Chance" (1991) Paul Auster (USA, 1947): "Leviathan" (1992) Paul Auster (USA, 1947): "Mr Vertigo" (1994) + Keri Hulme (New Zealand, 1947): "Bone People" (1985) + Salman Rushdie (India, 1947): "Grimus" (1975) + Salman Rushdie (India, 1947): "Midnight's Children" (1980) ++ Salman Rushdie (India, 1947): "The Satanic Verses" (1988) + Salman Rushdie (India, 1947): "The Moor's Last Sigh" (1995) Salman Rushdie (India, 1947): "Quichotte" (2019) David Hare (Britain, 1947): "Slag" (1970) [t] + David Hare (Britain, 1947): "Knuckle" (1974) [t] David Hare (Britain, 1947): "Plenty" (1978) [t] Liz Lochhead (Britain, 1947): "Perfect Days" (1997) [t] David Mamet (USA, 1947): "Duck Variations" (1972) [t] David Mamet (USA, 1947): "American Buffalo" (1975) [t] + David Mamet (USA, 1947): "Glengarry Glen Ross" (1983) [t] + David Mamet (USA, 1947): "Oleanna" (1993) [t] David Mamet (USA, 1947): "Sexual Perversity in Chicago" (1974) [t] Willy Russell (Britain, 1947): "Educating Rita" (1980) [t] + Willy Russell (Britain, 1947): "Blood Brothers" (1981) [t] Willy Russell (Britain, 1947): "Shirley Valentine" (1986) [t] Michael Dibdin (Britain, 1947): "Ratking" (1988) Sara Paretsky (USA, 1947): "Indemnity Only" (1982) Sara Paretsky (USA, 1947): "Toxic Shock" (1988) Florence Anthony/ Ai (USA, 1947): "Cruelty" (1973) [p] Florence Anthony/ Ai (USA, 1947): "Killing Floor" (1979) [p] Florence Anthony/ Ai (USA, 1947): "Sin" (1986) [p] Florence Anthony/ Ai (USA, 1947): "Fate" (1991) [p] Florence Anthony/ Ai (USA, 1947): "Vice" (1999) [p] + Derek Mahon (Britain, 1947): "Courtyards in Delft" (1981) [p] Derek Mahon (Britain, 1947): "The Hunt by Night" (1982) [p] +nia Derek Mahon (Britain, 1947): "The Hudson Letter" (1996) [p] Arvind Mehrotra (India, 1947): "Nine Enclosures" (1976) [p] Arvind Mehrotra (India, 1947): "The Transfiguring Places" (1998) [p] Stephen Donaldson (USA, 1947): "Chronicles of Thomas Convenant" (1977) Stephen Donaldson (USA, 1947): "The Real Story" (1990) Lorna Goodison (Jamaica, 1947): "I Am Becoming My Mother" (1986) [p] Lorna Goodison (Jamaica, 1947): "To us All Flowers Are Roses" (1995) [p] Lorna Goodison (Jamaica, 1947): "Oracabessa" (2013) [p] Terry Pratchett (Britain, 1948): "Night Watch" (2002) Abdulrazak Gurnah (Tanzania, 1948): " Paradise" (1994) Abdulrazak Gurnah (Zanzibar, 1948): "Afterlives" (2020) Ntozake Shange (USA, 1948): "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf" (1975) [t] Lawrence Joseph (USA, 1948): "Into It" (2005) [p] Heather McHugh (USA, 1948): "Muddy Matterhorn" (2020) [p] + Heather McHugh (USA, 1948): "Eyeshot" (2004) [p] Dan Simmons (USA, 1948): "Hyperion Cantos" (1997) Ciaran Carson (Britain, 1948): "First Language" (1993) [p] Clare Boylan (Ireland, 1948): "Holy Pictures" (1983) George Szirtes (Britain, 1948): "Reel" (2004) [p] Mda Zakes (South Africa, 1948): "We Shall Sing for the Fatherland" (1973) [t] Mda Zakes (South Africa, 1948): "Ways of Dying" (1991) Mda Zakes (South Africa, 1948): "She Plays with the Darkness" (1995) Mda Zakes (South Africa, 1948): "The Heart Of Redness" (2000) + Thomas-Coraghessan Boyle (USA, 1948): "Water Music" (1982) Valerie Martin (USA, 1948): "The Confessions of Edward Day" (2009) Thomas-Coraghessan Boyle (USA, 1948): "World's End " (1987) + Thomas-Coraghessan Boyle (USA, 1948): "The Tortilla Curtain" (1995) Thomas-Coraghessan Boyle (USA, 1948): "Drop City" (2003) Maggie Gee (Britain, 1948): "Light Years" (1985) Janet Hobhouse (USA, 1948): "Dancing in the Dark" (1983) Janet Hobhouse (USA, 1948): "November" (1987) Janet Hobhouse (USA, 1948): "The Furies" (1991) + Ian McEwan (Britain, 1948): "Cement Garden" (1978) Ian McEwan (Britain, 1948): "The Comfort of Strangers" (1981) Ian McEwan (Britain, 1948): "The Child in Time" (1987) + Ian McEwan (Britain, 1948): "Enduring Love" (1997) Ian McEwan (Britain, 1948): "Amsterdam" (1998) + Ian McEwan (Britain, 1948): "Atonement" (2001) ++ Ian McEwan (Britain, 1948): "Saturday" (2005) Ian McEwan (Britain, 1948): "On Chesil Beach" (2007) Ian McEwan (Britain, 1948): "Lessons" (2022) Deborah Moggach (Britain, 1948): "Porky" (1983) Clive Sinclair (Britain, 1948): "Bibliosexuality" (1973) Robert Steiner (USA, 1948): "Quill" (1978) Nigel Williams (Britain, 1948): "Class Enemy" (1978) [t] Nigel Williams (Britain, 1948): "My Life Closed Twice" (1977) Nigel Williams (Britain, 1948): "Wimbledon Poisoner" (1994) Howard Brenton (Britain, 1948): "Revenge" (1969) [t] David Edgar (Britain, 1948): "Two Kinds of Angel" (1970) [t] David Edgar (Britain, 1948): "Mary Barnes" (1978) [t] George Martin (USA, 1948): "A Storm of Swords" (2000) Michael Dransfield (Australia, 1948): "Streets of the Long Voyage" (1970) [p] Michael Dransfield (Australia, 1948): "The Second Month of Spring" (1980) [p] Timothy Steele (USA, 1948): "The Color Wheel" (1994) [p] James Ellroy (USA, 1948): "American Tabloid" (1995) James Ellroy (USA, 1948): "Black Dahlia" (1987) James Ellroy (USA, 1948): "LA Confidential" (1990) + William Gibson (USA, 1948): "Neuromancer" (1984) + William Gibson (USA, 1948): "Monalisa Overdrive" (1988) Charles Johnson (USA, 1948): "Oxherding Tale" (1982) Lorna Crozier (Canada, 1948): "Angels of Flesh Angels of Silence" (1988) [p] Juan Felipe Herrera (USA, 1948): "CrashBoomLove" (1999) [p] Albert Goldbarth (USA, 1948): “Beyond” (1998) [p] Carolyn Wright (USA, 1949): "Tremble" (1996) [p] Agha Shahid Ali (India, 1949): "Call Me Ishmael Tonight" (2003) [p] Liam Rector (USA, 1949): "The Sorrow of Architecture" (1984) [p] Norm Foster (Canada, 1949): "The Melville Boys" (1986) [t] + Norm Foster (Canada, 1949): "The Affections of May" (1990) [t] Norm Foster (Canada, 1949): "The Long Weekend" (1994) [t] Norm Foster (Canada, 1949): "The Foursome" (1998) [t] Norm Foster (Canada, 1949): "Old Love" (2008) Peter Ackroyd (Britain, 1949): "Hawksmoor" (1985) Olga Broumas (USA, 1949): "Beginning With O" (1976) [p] August Kleinzahler (USA, 1949): "Sleeping It Off in Rapid City" (2008) [p] Jamaica Kincaid (Antigua, 1949): "The Autobiography of My Mother" (1996) Christopher Reid (Britain, 1949): "Arcadia" (1979) [p] + Christopher Reid (Britain, 1949): "Katerina Brac" (1985) [p] Scott Turow (USA, 1949): "Presumed Innocent" (1987) Gayl Jones (USA, 1949): "Corregidora" (1975) + Gayl Jones (USA, 1949): "Eva's Man" (1976) Gayl Jones (USA, 1949): "The Healing" (1998) Kathryn Kramer (USA, 1949): "A Handbook for Visitors from Outer Space" (1984) Martin Amis (Britain, 1949): "The Rachel Papers" (1974) Martin Amis (Britain, 1949): "Dead Babies" (1975) Martin Amis (Britain, 1949): "Money" (1984) + Martin Amis (Britain, 1949): "London Fields" (1989) + Martin Amis (Britain, 1949): "Time's Arrow" (1991) + Denis Johnson (USA, 1949): "Angels" (1983) Denis Johnson (USA, 1949): "Car Crash While Hitchhiking" (1992) Denis Johnson (USA, 1949): "Tree of Smoke" (2007) + Denis Johnson (USA, 1949): "Train Dreams" (2011) + Michele Roberts (Britain, 1949): "Daughters of the House" (1992) Graham Swift (Britain, 1949): "The Sweet-shop Owner" (1980) Graham Swift (Britain, 1949): "Shuttlecock" (1981) Graham Swift (Britain, 1949): "Waterland" (1984) + Graham Swift (Britain, 1949): "Last Orders" (1996) James Wilcox (USA, 1949): "Miss Undine's Living Room" (1987) James Wilcox (USA, 1949): "Modern Baptists" (1983) James Fenton (Britain, 1949): "Children in Exile" (1984) [p] Tom Paulin (Britain, 1949): "Fivemiletown" (1987) [p] Ken Follett (Britain, 1949): "Eye of the Needle" (1979) Richard Russo (USA, 1949): "Empire Falls" (2002) Lois McMaster-Bujold (USA, 1949): "The Mountains of Mourning" (1989) Jessica Hagedorn (Philippines, 1949): "Dogeaters" (1990) Jessica Hagedorn (Philippines, 1949): "Mango Tango" (1977) Continues on this page