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The year 1987 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

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, at the time.

PUBLISHED BOOKS

Chinua Achebe - '' Anthills Of The Savannah ''

Peter Ackroyd - '' Chatterton '' (shortlisted for Booker Prize 1987)

Douglas Adams - '' Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency ''

Martin Amis - '' Einstein's Monsters ''

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

Iain Banks

---'' Consider Phlebas '' (as Iain M. Banks)

---'' Espedair Street ''

Clive Barker - '' Weaveworld ''

Greg Bear - '' The Forge Of God ''

Truddi Chase - '' When Rabbit Howls ''

Tom Clancy - '' Patriot Games ''

Hugh Cook

---'' The Wordsmiths And The Warguild ''

---'' The Women And The Warlords ''

L. Sprague De Camp and Catherine Crook De Camp - '' The Incorporated Knight ''

Jenny Diski - '' Rainforest ''

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

James Ellroy - '' Black Dahlia ''

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

Kaye Gibbons - '' Ellen Foster ''

Ken Grimwood - '' Replay ''

Tom Holt - '' Expecting Someone Taller ''

Josephine Humphreys - '' Rich In Love ''

John Jakes - '' Heaven And Hell ''

Garrison Keillor - '' Leaving Home ''

Stephen King

---'' Misery ''

---'' The Tommyknockers ''

Penelope Lively - '' Moon Tiger ''

Ian McEwan - '' The Child In Time ''

Betty Mahmoody - '' Not Without My Daughter ''

James A. Michener - '' Legacy ''

Toni Morrison - '' Beloved ''

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

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

Rosamunde Pilcher - '' The Shell Seekers ''

Peter Pohl - '' Vi Kallar Honom Anna ''

Terry Pratchett

---'' Equal Rites ''

---'' Mort ''

Edward Rutherfurd - '' Sarum ''

José Saramago - '' Baltasar And Blimunda ''

Leonardo Sciascia - '' Porte Aperte ''

Michael Shea - '' Polyphemus ''

Sidney Sheldon - '' Windmills Of The Gods ''

Lucius Shepard - '' The Jaguar Hunter ''

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Michael Slade - '' Ghoul ''

Danielle Steel

---'' Fine Things ''

---'' Kaleidoscope ''

Ruth Thomas - '' The Runaways ''

Scott Turow - '' Presumed Innocent ''

Andrew Vachss - '' Strega ''

Barbara Vine - '' A Fatal Inversion ''

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

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

Roger Zelazny - '' Sign Of Chaos ''

NON-FICTION

Allan Bloom - '' The Closing Of The American Mind ''

Bruce Chatwin - '' The Songlines ''

Bill Cosby - '' Time Flies ''

Andrea Dworkin - '' Intercourse ''

Paul Kennedy - '' The Rise And Fall Of The Great Powers : Economic Change and Military Conflict From 1500 to 2000''

Nien Cheng - '' Life And Death In Shanghai ''

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Peter Wright - '' Spycatcher ''

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

April 11 - Erskine Caldwell , novelist

May 30 - Norman Nicholson , poet

September 25 - Emlyn Williams , dramatist

September 30 - Alfred Bester , science fiction writer

October 3 - Jean Anouilh , dramatist

October 8 - Roger Lancelyn Green , biographer and children's author

October 31 - Joseph Campbell , author and expert on Mythology

November 29 - Gwendolyn MacEwen , Canadian poet

December 1 - James Baldwin , novelist

December 17 - Marguerite Yourcenar , novelist

AWARDS

Australia

, ''Ilias''

, ''The Auschwitz Poems''

, ''Blood and Bone''

- ''Boy with Telescope''

Canada

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

France

, ''La Nuit sacrée''

, ''Les Éblouissements''

, ''Nocturne indien''

United Kingdom

, ''Moon Tiger''

, Matthew Sweeney , George Szirtes

, Maura Dooley , Stephen Knight , Steve Anthony , Jill Maughan , Paul Munden

, ''Under the Eye of the Clock''

United States

, ''Torque''

/ Sterling Brown

, ''The Falling Woman''

''The Whipping Boy''

, ''Fences''

, ''A Summons to Memphis''

, ''Thomas and Beulah''

Elsewhere

, ''La ocasión''