The year 1987 in literature involved some significant events and new books. [edit] Events - Tom Wolfe was paid $5 million for the film rights to his novel, The Bonfire of the Vanities, the most ever earned by an author, at the time.
[edit] Published books [edit] Fiction [edit] Non-fiction [edit] Births [edit] Deaths - February 2 - Alistair MacLean, British thriller writer, heart attack
- February 10 - William Rose, screenwriter
- February 22 - Andy Warhol, artist, director, writer
- March 4 - Maria Jolas, literary publisher
- April 4 - C. L. Moore, science fiction author
- April 11 - Erskine Caldwell, novelist
- May 30 - Norman Nicholson, poet
- September 25 - Emlyn Williams, dramatist
- September 30 - Alfred Bester, science fiction writer
- October 3 - Jean Anouilh, dramatist
- October 8 - Roger Lancelyn Green, biographer and children's author
- October 31 - Joseph Campbell, author and expert on mythology
- November 29 - Gwendolyn MacEwen, Canadian poet
- December 1 - James Baldwin, novelist
- December 17 - Marguerite Yourcenar, novelist
[edit] Awards [edit] Australia [edit] Canada [edit] France [edit] United Kingdom - Booker Prize: Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
- Cholmondeley Award: Wendy Cope, Matthew Sweeney, George Szirtes
- Eric Gregory Award: Peter McDonald, Maura Dooley, Stephen Knight, Steve Anthony, Jill Maughan, Paul Munden
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: George Mackay Brown, The Golden Bird: Two Orkney Stories
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Ruth Dudley Edwards, Victor Gollancz: A Biography
- Whitbread Best Book Award: Christopher Nolan, Under the Eye of the Clock
- Sunday Express Book of the Year: Brian Moore, The Colour of Blood
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