1992 in literature

Events

• The Bridges of Madison County[?], originally self-published by author Robert James Waller[?], will go on to become the largest selling novel in history with more than 60 million copies sold.

New Books

• All Around the Town[?] - Mary Higgins Clark[?]
• Anvil of Stars[?] - Greg Bear
• The Bridges of Madison County[?] - Robert James Waller[?]
• The Children of Men - P.D. James
• Dolores Claiborne - Stephen King
• The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje
• Jazz - Toni Morrison
• Jewels[?] - Danielle Steel
• Mixed Blessings[?] - Danielle Steel
• Paddy Clarke[?] - Roddy Doyle[?]
• The Pelican Brief[?] - John Grisham
• Silent Passage[?] - Gail Sheehy[?]
• Small Gods - Terry Pratchett
• The Stars Shine Down[?] - Sidney Sheldon[?]
• The Tale of the Body Thief - Anne Rice
• Tales from Firozsha Baag[?] - Rohinton Mistry
• The Valkyries[?] - Paulo Coelho
• Waiting to Exhale[?] - Terry McMillan[?]

Births

Deaths

• April 6 - Isaac Asimov, author

Awards

• Booker Prize: Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient and Barry Unsworth[?], Sacred Hunger
• Nobel Prize for Literature:Derek Walcott
• Newberry Medal for children's literature: Phyllis Reynolds Naylor[?], Shiloh
• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Jane Smiley[?], A Thousand Acres
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: James Tate[?], Selected Poems
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Robert Schenkkan[?], The Kentucky Cycle