The year involved some significant events and new books.
- The film version of '', hits movie theaters. The film is directed by Peter Jackson
- February 15 - Author Michael Crichton signed a new two book deal with HarperCollins Publishers reportedly earning $40 million for the two books.
- is taken to Belmarsh jail in a van, seated next to a convicted knife murderer.
- January 31 - Gordon R. Dickson , Science Fiction writer
- February 7 - Anne Morrow Lindbergh , author, Aviator
- February 14 - Alan Ross ,78, poet and editor
- March 12 - Robert Ludlum , author
- May 11 - Douglas Adams , author (heart attack) (b. 1952 )
- May 13 - R.K. Narayan , 94, Indian Novelist
- June 1 - Hank Ketcham , 81, Cartoonist , creator of '' Dennis The Menace ''
- June 27 - Tove Jansson , children's author
- July 3 - Mordecai Richler
- August 1 - Poul Anderson - Fantasy / sci-fi author
- August 6 - Jorge Amado , 88, Brazilian writer
- August 20 - Fred Hoyle , Astronomer and Science Fiction writer
- November 10 - Ken Kesey , 66, author.
- , ''Skins''
- , ''Barefoot Speech''
- , ''Africa''
- , ''Dark Palace''
- , ''Le Cri du sablier''
- , ''Rosie Carpe''
- , ''Rouge Brésil''
- , ''Secrets de jeunesse''
- Prix Médicis Non-Fiction: ''Le Loup mongol''
- , ''La noce du poète''
- , ''True History of the Kelly Gang''
- , Paul Durcan , Kathleen Jamie , Grace Nichols
- , Thomas Warner , Tishani Doshi , Patrick Mackie , Kathryn Gray , Sally Read
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- , ''Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire''
- , ''The Third Reich''
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- Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize awarded to Gabriel Gudding for ''A Defense of Poetry''
- Aiken Taylor Award For Modern American Poetry , Frederick Morgan
- Bernard F. Connors Prize For Poetry , Gabrielle Calvocoressi , “Circus Fire, 1944”
- Bollingen Prize For Poetry , Louise Glück
- Brittingham Prize In Poetry , Robin Behn , ''Horizon Note''
- , ''Murphy's Gambit''
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- , ''A Year Down Yonder''
- , '' Proof ''
- , '' The Amazing Adventures Of Kavalier & Clay ''
- , ''Different Hours''
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