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EVENTS

Tom Wolfe was paid $5 million for the film rights to his novel, '' The Bonfire Of The Vanities '', the most ever earned by an author.

PUBLISHED BOOKS

'' Beloved '' - Toni Morrison

'' Black Dahlia '' - James Ellroy

'' The Bonfire Of The Vanities '' - Tom Wolfe

'' The Bourne Supremacy '' - Robert Ludlum

'' The Child In Time '' - Ian McEwan

'' Consider Phlebas '' - Iain M. Banks

'' Einstein's Monsters '' - Martin Amis

'' Ellen Foster '' - Kaye Gibbons

'' Equal Rites '' - Terry Pratchett

'' Espedair Street '' - Iain Banks

'' Fine Things '' - Danielle Steel

'' The Forge Of God '' - Greg Bear

'' Heaven And Hell '' - John Jakes

'' In The Skin Of A Lion '' - Michael Ondaatje

'''' - Salman Rushdie

'' Kaleidoscope '' - Danielle Steel

'' Legacy '' - James A. Michener

'' Leaving Home '' - Garrison Keillor

'' Misery '' - Stephen King

'' Mort '' - Terry Pratchett

'' No Deals, Mr. Bond '' - John Gardner

'' Not Without My Daughter '' - Betty Mahmoody

'' L'Obsédante Obèse Et Autres Agressions '' - Gilles Archambault

'' Pale Kings And Princes '' - Robert B. Parker

'' Patriot Games '' - Tom Clancy

'' Presumed Innocent '' - Scott Turow

'' Replay '' - Ken Grimwood

'' Rich In Love '' - Josephine Humphreys

'' The Rules Of Attraction '' - Bret Easton Ellis

'' The Runaways '' - Ruth Thomas

'' Spycatcher '' - Peter Wright

'' Swann '' - Carol Shields

'' Time Flies '' - Bill Cosby

'' The Tommyknockers '' - Stephen King

'' The Urth Of The New Sun '' - Gene Wolfe

'' Weaveworld '' - Clive Barker

'' When Rabbit Howls '' - Truddi Chase

'' Windmills Of The Gods '' - Sidney Sheldon

'' The Wordsmiths And The Warguild '' - Hugh Cook

'' The Women And The Warlords '' - Hugh Cook

BIRTHS

DEATHS

February 2 - Alistair MacLean , British thriller writer, heart attack

February 10 - William Rose , screenwriter

February 22 - Andy Warhol , artist, director, writer

March 4 - Maria Jolas , literary publisher

April 4 - C. L. Moore , science fiction author

September 25 - Emlyn Williams , dramatist

September 30 - Alfred Bester , science fiction writer

October 3 - Jean Anouilh , dramatist

October 31 - Joseph Campbell , author and expert on Mythology

December 1 - James Baldwin , novelist

December 17 - Marguerite Yourcenar , novelist

AWARDS

, ''Moon Tiger''

See 1987 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

, ''The Falling Woman''

''The Whipping Boy''

, ''La Nuit sacrée''

, ''Les Éblouissements''

, ''Nocturne indien''

, ''Fences''

, ''A Summons to Memphis''

, ''Thomas and Beulah''

, ''Under the Eye of the Clock''