The Bibliophile's Compass

🔴 1888 The Complete Fairy Tales by Oscar Wilde published 🔴 1984 Danielle Steel’s romance novel “Full Circle” is published 🔴 2007 Christopher Hitchens publishes his bestseller "God is not Great" making a case

🔴1787 1st American comedy, "The Contrast," makes its debut in NYC 🔴1977 Alex Haley finds his Roots in Juffure, Gambia 🔴1979 Sam Shepard receives Pulitzer Prize for "Buried Child" 🔴1984 Pulitzer prize awarded to Mary Oliver for "American Primitive" 🔴1987 August Wilson's "Fences" wins 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Drama 🔴1987 Peter Taylor's "Summons to Memphis" wins Pulitzer Prize for fiction 🔴2012 For the first time since 1977 no Pulitzer Prize is awarded for fiction

🔴 1932 George Bernard Shaw's comedy play "Too True To Be Good" premieres in NYC; runs for 59 performances 🔴 1958 Eugene Ionesco's play "Tueur sans Gages" (The Killer Without Reason) premieres in Darmstadt 🔴 1984 Winston Smith in Orwell's novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four" begins his secret diary in defiance of the totalitarian government of Oceania

1891 Henrik Ibsen's play "Hedda Gabler" premieres in Oslo, Norway 1956 Writers and poets Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes meet at a party in Cambridge 1962 Arthur Kopit's play "Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad" premieres in NYC 1978 Ira Levin's "Deathtrap" premieres in NYC 1984 Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Penn Warren is named the 1st US poet laureate