1985 in literature

Events

New Books

• The Accidental Tourist - Anne Tyler[?]
• The Adult Children of Alcoholics Syndrome[?] - Wayne Kritsberg[?]
• At the Going Down of the Sun[?] - Elizabeth Darrell[?]
• Blood Music - Greg Bear
• The Cider House Rules - John Irving
• Contact[?] - Carl Sagan
• The Damnation Game[?] - Clive Barker
• Elvis and Me[?] - Priscilla Beaulieu Presley
• The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
• If Tomorrow Comes[?] - Sidney Sheldon[?]
• Lake Wobegon Days[?] - Garrison Keillor
• Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry[?]
• The Mammoth Hunters[?] - Jean M. Auel[?]
• The Nuclear Age[?] - Tim O'Brien
• Robots and Empire[?] - Isaac Asimov
• The Secret Life of Saeed[?] - Imil Habibi[?]
• Secrets[?] - Danielle Steel
• Skeleton Crew - Stephen King
• Texas[?] - James A. Michener

Births

Deaths

• August 30 - Taylor Caldwell
• December 7 - Robert Graves

Awards

• Booker Prize: Keri Hulme[?], The Bone People
• Newberry Medal for children's literature: Robin McKinley[?], The Hero and the Crown
• Nobel Prize for Literature: Claude Simon[?]
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: James Lapine[?] for book; Stephen Sondheim for music and lyrics, Sunday in the Park With George
• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Alison Lurie[?] - Foreign Affairs
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Carolyn Kizer[?]: Yin