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The year 1979 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

EVENTS

NEW BOOKS

Jeffrey Archer - '' Kane And Abel ''

Barbara Taylor Bradford - '' A Woman Of Substance ''

Raymond Briggs - '' Fungus The Bogeyman ''

Octavia Butler - '' Kindred ''

Orson Scott Card - '' A Planet Called Treason ''

Angela Carter - '' The Bloody Chamber ''

L. Sprague De Camp and Lin Carter - '' Conan The Liberator ''

Thomas Flanagan -'' Year Of The French ''

John Fowles - '' The Tree ''

Arthur Hailey - '' Overload ''

Sian James - ''A Small Country''

Philippe Jullian - '' Montmartre ''

Stephen King - '' The Dead Zone ''

Russell Kirk - '' The Princess Of All Lands ''

Milan Kundera - '' The Book Of Laughter And Forgetting ''

John Le Carré - '' Smiley's People ''

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Robert Ludlum - '' The Matarese Circle ''

Norman Mailer - '' The Executioner's Song ''

Dambudzo Marechera - '' The House Of Hunger ''

V. S. Naipaul - '' A Bend In The River ''

Jerry Pournelle - '' Janissaries ''

Harold Robbins - '' Memories Of Another Day ''

Philip Roth - '' The Ghost Writer ''

Mary Stewart - '' The Last Enchantment ''

Peter Straub - '' Ghost Story ''

William Styron - '' Sophie's Choice ''

Jack Vance - '' The Face ''

Kurt Vonnegut - '' Jailbird ''

Elizabeth Walter - '' In The Mist And Other Uncanny Encounters ''

Kit Williams - '' Masquerade ''

Raymond Williams - '' The Fight For Manod ''

Tom Wolfe - '' The Right Stuff ''

Christopher Wood -'' James Bond And Moonraker ''

Roger Zelazny -'' Roadmarks ''

NEW DRAMA

Peter Shaffer - '' Amadeus ''

Sam Shepard - ''Buried Child''

POETRY

Kingsley Amis - '' Collected Poems ''

NON-FICTION

L. Sprague De Camp , editor - '' The Blade Of Conan ''

Sandra Gilbert & Susan Gubar - '' The Madwoman In The Attic : The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination''

Henry Kissinger - '' White House Years ''

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Stephen Pile - '' The Book Of Heroic Failures ''

Clark Ashton Smith - '' The Black Book Of Clark Ashton Smith ''

Margaret Trudeau - '' Beyond Reason ''

DEATHS

February 9 - Allen Tate , poet and essayist

February 25 - John L. Wasserman , critic

March 26 - Jean Stafford , short story writer and novelist

May 10 - J. B. Morton , columnist ("Beachcomber")

May 14 - Jean Rhys , novelist

June 7 - Forrest Carter , author

July 6 - Malcolm Hulke , TV writer

July 29 - Herbert Marcuse , philosopher

October 6 - Elizabeth Bishop , poet

October 17 - S. J. Perelman , humorist

October 18 - Virgilio Piñera , poet and short-story writer

December 19 - Donald Creighton , historian

''date unknown''

--- Dilys Cadwaladr , poet

---Sir George Clark , historian

--- Goronwy Rees , journalist