1987 in literature

Events

New Books

• Beloved[?] - Toni Morrison
• Black Dahlia[?] - James Ellroy[?]
• The Bonfire of the Vanities[?] - Tom Wolfe
• The Child in Time[?] - Ian McEwan[?]
• Fine Things[?] - Danielle Steel
• The Forge of God - Greg Bear
• Heaven and Hell[?] - John Jakes[?]
• In the Skin of A Lion[?] - Michael Ondaatje
• The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey[?] - Salman Rushdie
• Kaleidoscope - Danielle Steel
• Legacy[?] - James A. Michener
• Leaving Home[?] - Garrison Keillor
• Misery[?] - Stephen King
• Mort - Terry Pratchett
• Not Without My Daughter[?] - Betty Mahmoody[?]
• L'Obsédante obèse et autres agressions[?] - Gilles Archambault
• Patriot Games[?] - Tom Clancy
• Presumed Innocent[?] - Scott Turow
• Spycatcher[?] - Peter Wright[?]
• Time Flies[?] - Bill Cosby
• The Tommyknockers - Stephen King
• Windmills of the Gods[?] - Sidney Sheldon[?]

Births

Deaths

• February 2 - Alistair MacLean, British thriller writer, heart attack
• February 22 - Andy Warhol, artist, director, writer
• April 4 - C. L. Moore, science ficton author
• October 31 - Joseph Campbell, author and expert on mythology

Awards

• Booker Prize: Penelope Lively[?], Moon Tiger
• Newberry Medal for children's literature: Sid Fleischman[?] The Whipping Boy
• Nobel Prize for Literature: Joseph Brodsky[?]
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: August Wilson, Fences
• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Peter Taylor[?], A Summons to Memphis
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Rita Dove[?], Thomas and Beulah