1986 in literature

Events

New Books

• The Bourne Supremacy[?] - Robert Ludlum
• Cadillac Desert[?] - Marc Reisner[?]
• The Fisher King[?] - Anthony Powell
• Ghost[?] - Piers Anthony
• The Golden Cup[?] - Belva Plain[?]
• Hollywood Husbands[?] - Jackie Collins[?]
• I'll Take Manhattan[?] - Judith Krantz[?]
• In the Hollow of His Hand[?] - James Purdy[?]
• It - Stephen King
• Kara Kush[?] - Idries Shah
• Last of the Breed[?] - Louis L'Armour[?]
• Love You Forever[?] - Robert Munsch[?]
• The Making of the Atomic Bomb[?] - Richard Rhodes[?]
• A Matter of Honour[?] - Jeffrey Archer
• The Old Devils[?] - Kingsley Amis
• A Perfect Spy[?] - John le Carré
• The Prince of Tides - Pat Conroy[?]
• Red Storm Rising - Tom Clancy
• Sportswriter[?] - Richard Ford
• Wanderlust[?] - Danielle Steel
• Whirlwind[?] - James Clavell
• Women of the Left Bank: Paris 1900-1940[?] - Shari Benstock[?]

Births

Deaths

• January 24 - L. Ron Hubbard, science fiction writer, founder of Scientology
• February 26 - Robert Penn Warren, poet, author
• March 4 - Elizabeth Smart, Canadian poet and novelist
• June 14 - Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine writer
• August 20 - Milton Acorn, Canadian poet, writer, and playwright

Awards

• Booker Prize: Kingsley Amis, The Old Devils[?]
• Newberry Medal for children's literature: Patricia MacLachlan[?], Sarah, Plain and Tall
• Nobel Prize for Literature: Wole Soyinka
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: no award given
• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Larry McMurtry[?], Lonesome Dove
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Henry Taylor, The Flying Change