1991 in literature

Events

New Books

• American Psycho - Brett Easton Ellis[?]
• As the Crow Flies[?] - Jeffrey Archer
• Damage - Josephine Hart[?]
• Dead Certainties[?] - Simon Schama[?]
• Den of Thieves[?] - James B. Stewart[?]
• Dirty Weekend - Helen Zahavi[?]
• The Doomsday Conspiracy[?] - Sidney Sheldon[?]
• Druids[?] - Morgan Llywelyn[?]
• The Firm - John Grisham
• Heartbeat[?] - Danielle Steel
• Jernigan[?] - David Gates
• The Kitchen God's Wife[?] - Amy Tan
• A Life of Picasso[?] - John Richardson[?]
• Loves Music, Loves to Dance[?] - Mary Higgins Clark[?]
• Mexico[?] - James A. Michener
• Possession: A Romance[?] - A. S. Byatt[?]
• The Secret Pilgrim[?] - John le Carré
• Star Wars: Heir to the Empire[?] - Timothy Zahn
• Such a Long Journey[?] - Rohinton Mistry
• The Sum of All Fears[?] - Tom Clancy
• A Thousand Acres[?] - Jane Smiley[?]
• Through the Vast Halls of Memory[?] - Haifa Zangana[?]
• The Van[?] - Roddy Doyle[?]

Births

Deaths

• January 29 - Yasushi Inoue[?], historian
• February 24 - John Daly[?], journalist, game show host
• April 29 - Claude Gallimard[?], French publishing magnate

Awards

• Booker Prize: Ben Okri[?], The Famished Road
• Newberry Medal for children's literature: Jerry Spinelli[?], Maniac Magee
• Nobel Prize for Literature: Nadine Gordimer
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Neil Simon, Lost in Yonkers
• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: John Updike: Rabbit At Rest
• Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction: Edward O. Wilson: The Ants
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Mona Van Duyn[?]: Near Changes