1996 In Literature

EVENTS

Harper Lee 's novel, '' To Kill A Mockingbird '', is removed from an advanced placement English reading list in Lindale, Texas because it "conflicted with the values of the community."

In the United Kingdom , the first Orange Prize For Fiction for female Novelist s is awarded.

First performance of Eve Ensler 's '' The Vagina Monologues ''.

Peter O'Donnell publishes '' Cobra Trap '', his final volume of adventures featuring Modesty Blaise ; the first book in the series was published in 1965 .

Margaret Mitchell 's long-lost first novella, '' Lost Laysen '', is published 80 years after it was written.

NEW BOOKS

'' Absolute Power '' - David Baldacci

'' Alias Grace '' - Margaret Atwood

'' Anastasia '' - Vladimir Megre

'' Bandarshah '' - Al-Tayyib Salih

'' By The Shores Of Gitchee Gumee '' - Tama Janowitz

'' COLD '' - John Gardner

'' Excession '' - Iain M. Banks

'' Executive Orders '' - Tom Clancy

'' Feet Of Clay '' - Terry Pratchett

'' Fight Club '' - Chuck Palahniuk

'' Fighting For Canada '' (Maîtres Chanteurs Chez Nous!) - Diane Francis

'' A Fine Balance '' - Rohinton Mistry

'' The Fourth Estate '' - Jeffrey Archer

'' Gods And Generals '' - Jeff Shaara

'' The Goldberg Variations '' - Nancy Huston

'' The Gun Seller '' - Hugh Laurie

'' Hackers '' - short story collection

'' Hogfather '' - Terry Pratchett

'' How Stella Got Her Groove Back '' - Terry McMillan

'' Intensity '' - Dean R. Koontz

'' Kiki's Memoirs '' - Kiki , (translation by Samuel Putnam)

'' Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil '' - John Berendt

'' Moonlight Becomes You '' - Mary Higgins Clark

'' Neanderthal '' - John Darnton

'' Polaroids From The Dead '' - Douglas Coupland

'' Primary Colors '' - Joe Klein as " Anonymous "

'' The Runaway Jury '' - John Grisham

'' Selected Stories '' - Mavis Gallant

'' Sofia; The Sultan's Daughter '' - Ann Chamberlin

'' The Tailor Of Panama '' - John Le Carré

'' The Tenth Insight '' - James Redfield

'' The Truth Machine '' - James L. Halperin

'' Undaunted Courage '' - Stephen Ambrose

'' A Vicious Circle '' - Amanda Craig

'' The Wicca Garden '' - Gerina Dunwich

'' The Wicca Source Book '' - Gerina Dunwich

'' Wonder Bread And Ecstasy '' - Charles Isherwood

'' We Were The Mulvaneys '' - Joyce Carol Oates

BIRTHS

DEATHS

January 28 - Jerry Siegel , Cartoonist , creator of '' Superman ''

February 11 - Bob Shaw , Science Fiction writer.

December 11 Willie Rushton , UK Comedian and Cartoonist

AWARDS

, ''Last Orders''

: - ''Alias Grace''

See 1996 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

, ''Remembering Babylon''

, ''Slow River''

, ''The Midwife's Apprentice''

, ''Le Chasseur Zéro''

, ''Loués soient nos seigneurs: une éducation politique''

and ''L'Organisation'' - Jean Rolin

, Germany and ''Sonietchka'' - Ludmila Oulitskaïa , Russia

, ''A Spell of Winter''

, ''Rent''

- ''Independence Day''

: ''The Dream of the Unified Field''

, ''The Spirit Level''

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