1990 in literature

Events

New Books

• The Bourne Ultimatum[?] - Robert Ludlum
• The Burden of Proof[?] - Scott Turow
• The Cardinal Virtues[?] - Andrew Greeley
• Clear and Present Danger - Tom Clancy
• Devices and Desires[?] - P. D. James[?]
• Get Shorty[?] - Elmore Leonard[?]
• Heads[?] - Greg Bear
• Harvest - Belva Plain[?]
• Homecoming - John Bradshaw[?]
• An Inconvenient Woman[?] - Dominic Dunne[?]
• Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton
• Liberty and Power[?] - Harry L. Watson
• Message From Nam[?] - Danielle Steel
• Pilgrimage[?] - James A. Michener
• Queen of Angels[?] - Greg Bear
• September - Rosamund Pilcher[?]
• The Stand: The Complete and Uncut Version[?] - Stephen King
• Swann[?] - Carol Shields
• The Things They Carried[?] - Tim O'Brien
• Vineland[?] - Thomas Pynchon

Births

Deaths

• February 24 - Malcolm Forbes[?], publisher
• May 10 - Walker Percy
• August 25 - Morley Callaghan, Canadian writer
• October 23 - Louis Althusser, French Marxist philosopher
• November 8 - Anya Seton, author
• December 14 - Friedrich Dürrenmatt, writer

Awards

• Booker Prize: A. S. Byatt[?], Possession
• Caldecott Award: Ed Young[?], Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China
• Hugo Award for Best Novel: Poul Anderson for The Boat of a Million Years
• National Book Award for Fiction: Charles Johnson[?] for Middle Passage
• Newberry Medal for children's literature: Lois Lowry, Number the Stars
• Nobel Prize for Literature: Octavio Paz
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: August Wilson, The Piano Lesson
• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Oscar Hijuelos[?] for The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Charles Simic[?]: The World Doesn't End