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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1997.

Events

February 20 - Allen Ginsberg makes his final public appearance at the NYU Poetry Slam.^[1] Ginsberg continues to write through his final illness, with his last poem, "Things I'll Not Do (Nostalgias)", written on March 30.^[2]
May - Shakespeare's Globe in London, a reconstruction of the Elizabethan Globe Theatre, opens with a production of Shakespeare's Henry V.
June 30 - Publication of J. K. Rowling's first Harry Potter novel, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, by Bloomsbury Publishing in London.
October - Jacket online literary magazine founded.
November 24 - New British Library building in London, designed by Colin St John Wilson, opens to readers.
December 30 - The memoir I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou is removed from the ninth-grade English curriculum in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, because it "portrays white people as being horrible, nasty, stupid people".^[3]
Tom Clancy signs a book deal with Pearson Custom Publishing and Penguin Putnam Inc. (both part of Pearson Education), giving him US$50 million for the world-English rights to two new books. A second agreement gives him another US$25 million for a four-year book/multimedia deal. Clancy follows this up with an agreement with Berkley Books for 24 paperbacks to tie in with the an ABC television miniseries in an agreement worth US$22 million bringing the total value of the package to US$97 million.

New books

Ben Aaronovitch & Kate Orman - So Vile a Sin
Mitch Albom - Tuesdays With Morrie
Martin Amis - Night Train
Iain Banks - A Song of Stone
John Banville - The Untouchable
Hazel Barnes - The Story I Tell Myself
Marie Bashkirtseff (died 1884) - I Am the Most Interesting Book of All (translation)
Raymond Benson - Tomorrow Never Dies and Zero Minus Ten
Jonathan Blum & Kate Orman - Vampire Science
Roberto Bolaño - Last Evenings on Earth (Llamadas Telefonicas)
'Asta Bowen - Wolf: A Journey Home
Pascal Bruckner - Les Voleurs de beauté
Simon Bucher-Jones - Ghost Devices
Christopher Bulis - A Device of Death
Tim Burton - The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories
Candace Bushnell - Sex and the City
Peter Carey - Jack Maggs
Caleb Carr - The Angel of Darkness
Agatha Christie
- The Harlequin Tea Set
- While the Light Lasts and Other Stories
Mary Higgins Clark - Pretend You Don't See Her
Warwick Collins - Gents
Bernard Cornwell - Sharpe's Tiger and Excalibur: A Novel of Arthur
Patricia Cornwell - Hornet's Nest and Unnatural Exposure
Paul Cornell - Oh No It Isn't!
Jim Crace - Quarantine
Robert Crais - Indigo Slam
Ann C. Crispin - The Hutt Gambit and The Paradise Snare
Don DeLillo - Underworld
Anita Diamant - The Red Tent
Terrance Dicks - The Eight Doctors and Mean Streets
Fernanda Eberstadt - When the Sons of Heaven Meet the Daughters of the Earth
Charles Frazier - Cold Mountain
Anthony Frewin - London Blues
Anastasia Gosteva - Дочь самурая ("The Samurai's Daughter")
John Grisham - The Partner
Barbara Hambly - Planet of Twilight
Allison Hedge Coke - Dog Road Woman (American Book Award winner 1998)
Matt Jones - Beyond the Sun
Sebastian Junger - The Perfect Storm
Winona LaDuke - Last Standing Woman
Joe R. Lansdale - Bad Chili
Paul Leonard - Genocide
Ann-Marie MacDonald - Fall on Your Knees
Bernard MacLaverty - Grace Notes
Ian R. MacLeod - Voyages by Starlight
Norman Mailer - The Gospel According to the Son
Ian McEwan - Enduring Love
David A. McIntee - The Dark Path
Lawrence Miles - Alien Bodies and Down
Mark Morris - The Bodysnatchers
Toni Morrison - Paradise
Jim Mortimore - Eternity Weeps
Courttia Newland - The Scholar
Kate Orman - The Room with No Doors
Lance Parkin - The Dying Days
James Patterson - Cat and Mouse
Cyril Pearl - Morisson of Peking
John Peel - War of the Daleks
Pepetela - A Gloriosa Família
Marc Platt - Lungbarrow
Terry Pratchett - Jingo
Annie Proulx - "Brokeback Mountain" (short story)
Philip Pullman - The Subtle Knife
Thomas Pynchon - Mason & Dixon
Kathy Reichs - Déjà Dead
Nina Revoyr - The Necessary Hunger
Justin Richards - Dragons' Wrath
Mordecai Richler - Barney's Version
Gareth Roberts - The Well-Mannered War
Philip Roth - American Pastoral
J. K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Arundhati Roy - The God of Small Things
Don Miguel Ruiz - The Four Agreements
Gary Russell - Deadfall and Instruments of Darkness
Sarah Ferguson - Budgie the Little Helicopter
Will Self - Great Apes
Carol Shields - Larry's Party
Sidney Sheldon - The Best Laid Plans
Michael Stackpole - The Bacta War
Danielle Steel - The Ghost, The Ranch and Special Delivery
Dave Stone - Burning Heart and Ship of Fools
William Sutcliffe - Are You Experienced?
Antonio Tabucchi - The Missing Head of Damasceno Monteiro (La testa perduta di Damasceno Monteiro)
Eckhart Tolle - The Power of Now
Kurt Vonnegut - Timequake
Vivian Walsh - Olive, the Other Reindeer
Lulu Wang - Het Lelietheater ("The Lily Theatre")
Timothy Zahn - Specter of the Past
Roger Zelazny and Jane Lindskold - Donnerjack

New drama

Jon Fosse - Nightsongs
Moisés Kaufman - Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde
Thomas Kilroy - The Secret Fall of Constance Wilde
Conor McPherson - The Weir
Patrick Marber - Closer
Richard Nelson - Goodnight Children Everywhere
Peter Whelan - The Herbal Bed

Poetry

Ted Hughes - Tales from Ovid

Non-fiction

Karen Armstrong - Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet
Dave Barry - Dave Barry's Book of Bad Songs
Jean-Dominique Bauby - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Le Scaphandre et le Papillon)
Cari Beauchamp - Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywood
Bill Bryson - A Walk in the Woods
Iris Chang - The Rape of Nanking
Jared Diamond - Guns, Germs and Steel
Alan Downs - Beyond the Looking Glass: Overcoming the Seductive Culture of Corporate Narcissism
Michael Drosnin - The Bible Code
Gerina Dunwich - A Wiccan's Guide to Prophecy and Divination
Timothy Ferris - The Whole Shebang: A State-of-the-Universe(s) Report
Stephen Fry - Moab Is My Washpot (autobiography)
Charlotte Gray - Mrs. King ^[4]
Alan Guth - The Inflationary Universe
Jesse Lee Kercheval - Building Fiction
James McBride - The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
Adele Morales - The Last Party: Scenes From My Life with Norman Mailer
Maria Todorova - Imagining the Balkans
Kevin Warwick - March of the Machines

Deaths

January 19 – James Dickey, American poet and novelist (born 1923)
February 3 – Bohumil Hrabal, Czech novelist (born 1914)
February 18 – Emily Hahn, American journalist and author (born 1905)
April 5 – Allen Ginsberg, American poet (liver cancer, born 1926)^[1]
May 9 – Rina Lasnier, Canadian poet (born 1915)
June 8 – George Turner, Australian novelist and critic (born 1916)
July 26 – Joseph Henry Reason, American librarian (born 1905))^[5]
August 2 – William S. Burroughs, American novelist (born 1914^[6]
August 16 – Gerard McLarnon, Irish actor and playwright (born 1915)
August 27 – Johannes Edfelt, Swedish poet, translator and critic (born 1904)
October 14 – Harold Robbins, American novelist (born 1916)
October 16 – James A. Michener, American novelist and historian (born 1907)
November 6 – Leon Forrest, African American novelist and essayist (cancer, born 1937)^[7]
November 30 – Kathy Acker, American novelist and poet (breast cancer, born 1947)^[8]

Awards

Nonfiction: Jo Ann Beard, Suketu Mehta (fiction/nonfiction), Ellen Meloy

Plays: Erik Ehn

Poetry: Connie Deanovich, Forrest Gander, Jody Gladding, Mark Turpin

Elsewhere

IMPAC Dublin Literary Award: Javier Marias, A Heart So White
Premio Nadal: Carlos Cañeque, Quién

Notes

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↑ Kathy Acker and Transnationalism, ed. Polina Mackay and Kathryn Nicol (Cambridge Scholars, 2009)
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[6] 2003 Penguin Modern Classics edition of Junky.

[7] Onishi, Norimitsu. "Leon Forrest, 60, a Novelist Who Explored Black History", The New York Times, November 10, 1997.

[8] Kathy Acker and Transnationalism, ed. Polina Mackay and Kathryn Nicol (Cambridge Scholars, 2009)

[9] Faculty of Arts, 1997, Edna Staebler Award, Wilfrid Laurier University, Previous winners, Anne Mullens, Retrieved 11/17/2012

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