This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1997.

List of years in literature (table)
In poetry
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
+...

Events

edit

Uncertain dates

  • Tom Clancy signs a deal with Pearson Custom Publishing and Penguin Putnam Inc. giving him US $50 million for the world English rights to two new books. A second agreement pays another $25 million for a four-year book/multimedia deal, and a third, with Berkley Books for 24 paperbacks to tie in with an ABC television miniseries for $22 million.
  • Janet Dailey admits to plagiarism of the novels of the fellow American bestselling romance writer Nora Roberts.[4][5]

New books

edit

Fiction

edit

Children and young people

edit

Drama

edit

Poetry

edit

Non-fiction

edit

Births

edit

Deaths

edit

Awards

edit

Australia

edit

Canada

edit

France

edit

Spain

edit

United Kingdom

edit

United States

edit
Fiction: Josip Novakovich (fiction/nonfiction), Melanie Rae Thon
Nonfiction: Jo Ann Beard, Suketu Mehta (fiction/nonfiction), Ellen Meloy
Plays: Erik Ehn
Poetry: Connie Deanovich, Forrest Gander, Jody Gladding, Mark Turpin

Elsewhere

edit

Notes

edit
  • Hahn, Daniel (2015). The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (2nd ed.). Oxford. University Press. ISBN 9780198715542.

References

edit
  1. ^ a b Hampton, Wilborn (April 6, 1997). "Allen Ginsberg, Master Poet Of Beat Generation, Dies at 70". New York Times. Archived from the original on March 11, 2008. Retrieved April 14, 2008.
  2. ^ Ginsberg, Allen. Collected Poems 1947–1997. pp. 1160–61.
  3. ^ "Harry Potter, 'Huckleberry Finn' among controversial". Banned books. CNN. Archived from the original on 2004-08-05.
  4. ^ Wilson, Jeff (1997-07-30). "Romance novelist Janet Dailey apologizes for plagiarism". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
  5. ^ Standora, Leo (1997-08-27). "Romance Writer Janet Dailey Sued". New York Daily News. Archived from the original on 2009-08-01. Retrieved 2008-11-18.
  6. ^ The Worlds of Carol Shields. University of Ottawa Press. 2014. p. 113. ISBN 9780776621869.
  7. ^ Hahn 2015, p. 14
  8. ^ Hahn 2015, p.106
  9. ^ "His Dark Materials". Oxford Reference. Retrieved 11 January 2022.
  10. ^ Hahn 2015, pp. 264-265
  11. ^ Hahn 2015, p. 631
  12. ^ Kevin Warwick (1997). March of the Machines: Why the New Race of Robots Will Rule the World. Century. ISBN 978-0-7126-7756-1.
  13. ^ "L'empire des rois khmers". livreshebdo.fr (in French). 1997. Retrieved 14 April 2022.
  14. ^ Davison, Peter (August 1, 1998). "The Burden of James Dickey". The Atlantic.
  15. ^ Owens, Irene (January 2003). "Reason, Joseph Henry". In Donald G. Davis (ed.). Dictionary of American Library Biography: Second supplement. Libraries Unlimited. pp. 182–186. ISBN 978-1-56308-868-1.
  16. ^ 2003 Penguin Modern Classics edition of Junky.
  17. ^ Onishi, Norimitsu. "Leon Forrest, 60, a Novelist Who Explored Black History", The New York Times, November 10, 1997.
  18. ^ Kathy Acker and Transnationalism, ed. Polina Mackay and Kathryn Nicol (Cambridge Scholars, 2009)
  19. ^ Faculty of Arts, 1997, Edna Staebler Award Archived 2014-06-06 at Archive-It, Wilfrid Laurier University, Previous winners, Anne Mullens, Retrieved 11/17/2012