The year 1997 in literature involved some significant events and new books. [edit] Events - 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.
- 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" [CNN].[1]
- Jacket online literary magazine founded.
[edit] New books [edit] New drama [edit] Poetry Main article: 1997 in poetry[edit] Non-fiction [edit] Births [edit] Deaths [edit] Awards [edit] Australia [edit] Canada [edit] France [edit] United Kingdom - Booker Prize: Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Andrew Miller, Ingenious Pain
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: R. F. Foster, William Butler Yeats: A Life, Volume 1 - The Apprentice Mage 1965-1914
- Cholmondeley Award: Alison Brackenbury, Gillian Clarke, Tony Curtis, Anne Stevenson
- Eric Gregory Award: Matthew Clegg, Sarah Corbett, Polly Clark, Tim Kendall, Graham Nelson, Matthew Welton
- Orange Prize for Fiction: Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces
- Whitbread Best Book Award: Ted Hughes, Tales from Ovid
[edit] United States [edit] Elsewhere - ^ "CNN.com: Harry Potter, 'Huckleberry Finn' among controversial.." webpage: CNN-banned-books.
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