Events New Books The Bourne Supremacy - Robert Ludlum Cadillac Desert - Marc Reisner The Fence Post Chronicles - W.P. Kinsella The Fisher King - Anthony Powell Ghost - Piers Anthony The Golden Cup - Belva Plain Hollywood Husbands - Jackie Collins I'll Take Manhattan - Judith Krantz In the Hollow of His Hand - James Purdy It (novel) - Stephen King Kara Kush - Idries Shah Last of the Breed - Louis L'Amour The Light Fantastic - Terry Pratchett Love You Forever - Robert Munsch The Making of the Atomic Bomb - Richard Rhodes A Matter of Honour - Jeffrey Archer The Old Devils - Kingsley Amis A Perfect Spy - John le Carré The Prince of Tides - Pat Conroy Red Storm Rising - Tom Clancy Sportswriter - Richard Ford Wanderlust - Danielle Steel Whirlwind - James Clavell Women of the Left Bank: Paris 1900-1940 - Shari Benstock Births Deaths January 24 - L. Ron Hubbard, science fiction writer, founder of Scientology February 26 - Robert Penn Warren, poet, author March 4 - Elizabeth Smart, Canadian poet and novelist May 15 - Theodore H. White, writer June 14 - Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine writer August 20 - Milton Acorn, Canadian poet, writer, and playwright Awards Booker Prize: Kingsley Amis, The Old Devils See 1986 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards. Nebula Award: Orson Scott Card, Speaker For the Dead Newbery Medal for children's literature: Patricia MacLachlan, Sarah, Plain and Tall Nobel Prize for Literature: Wole Soyinka Prix Goncourt: Michel Host , Valet de nuit Prix Médicis French: Pierre Combescot, Les Funérailles de la Sardine Prix Médicis International: John Hawkes, Aventures dans le commerce des peaux en Alaska Pulitzer Prize for Drama: no award given Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Henry Taylor, The Flying Change Whitbread Best Book Award: Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World
New Books The Bourne Supremacy - Robert Ludlum Cadillac Desert - Marc Reisner The Fence Post Chronicles - W.P. Kinsella The Fisher King - Anthony Powell Ghost - Piers Anthony The Golden Cup - Belva Plain Hollywood Husbands - Jackie Collins I'll Take Manhattan - Judith Krantz In the Hollow of His Hand - James Purdy It (novel) - Stephen King Kara Kush - Idries Shah Last of the Breed - Louis L'Amour The Light Fantastic - Terry Pratchett Love You Forever - Robert Munsch The Making of the Atomic Bomb - Richard Rhodes A Matter of Honour - Jeffrey Archer The Old Devils - Kingsley Amis A Perfect Spy - John le Carré The Prince of Tides - Pat Conroy Red Storm Rising - Tom Clancy Sportswriter - Richard Ford Wanderlust - Danielle Steel Whirlwind - James Clavell Women of the Left Bank: Paris 1900-1940 - Shari Benstock Births Deaths January 24 - L. Ron Hubbard, science fiction writer, founder of Scientology February 26 - Robert Penn Warren, poet, author March 4 - Elizabeth Smart, Canadian poet and novelist May 15 - Theodore H. White, writer June 14 - Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine writer August 20 - Milton Acorn, Canadian poet, writer, and playwright Awards Booker Prize: Kingsley Amis, The Old Devils See 1986 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards. Nebula Award: Orson Scott Card, Speaker For the Dead Newbery Medal for children's literature: Patricia MacLachlan, Sarah, Plain and Tall Nobel Prize for Literature: Wole Soyinka Prix Goncourt: Michel Host , Valet de nuit Prix Médicis French: Pierre Combescot, Les Funérailles de la Sardine Prix Médicis International: John Hawkes, Aventures dans le commerce des peaux en Alaska Pulitzer Prize for Drama: no award given Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Henry Taylor, The Flying Change Whitbread Best Book Award: Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World
Deaths January 24 - L. Ron Hubbard, science fiction writer, founder of Scientology February 26 - Robert Penn Warren, poet, author March 4 - Elizabeth Smart, Canadian poet and novelist May 15 - Theodore H. White, writer June 14 - Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine writer August 20 - Milton Acorn, Canadian poet, writer, and playwright Awards Booker Prize: Kingsley Amis, The Old Devils See 1986 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards. Nebula Award: Orson Scott Card, Speaker For the Dead Newbery Medal for children's literature: Patricia MacLachlan, Sarah, Plain and Tall Nobel Prize for Literature: Wole Soyinka Prix Goncourt: Michel Host , Valet de nuit Prix Médicis French: Pierre Combescot, Les Funérailles de la Sardine Prix Médicis International: John Hawkes, Aventures dans le commerce des peaux en Alaska Pulitzer Prize for Drama: no award given Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Henry Taylor, The Flying Change Whitbread Best Book Award: Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World