Timeline

1890-1909

1891: BIRTHDAY of Zora Neale Hurston
1907: BIRTHDAY of Dorothy West

1910-1929

1912: BIRTHDAY of May Sarton
1921: BIRTHDAY of Hisaye Yamamoto
1925: BIRTHDAY of Mary Flannery O'Connor
1928: BIRTHDAY of Cynthia Ozick

1930-1949

1934: Jonah's Gourd Vine by Hurston
1937: Their Eyes Were Watching God by Hurston
Encounter in April by Sarton
1938: BIRTHDAY of Joyce Carol Oates
The Single Hound by Sarton
1939: Moses, Man of the Mountain by Hurston
Inner Landscape by Sarton
Fire in the Mirror by Sarton [novel never published]
1942: Dust Tracks on a Road by Hurston
1946: The Bridge of Years by Sarton
1948: BIRTHDAY of Leslie Marmon Silko
Seraph on the Suwanee by Hurston
The Lion and the Rose by Sarton
The Living is Easy by West

1950-1969

1950: Shadow of a Man by Sarton
The Legend of Miss Sasagawara by Yamamoto
1951: Yoneko's Earthquake by Yamamoto
1952: BIRTHDAY of Amy Tan
Wise Blood by O'Connor
Shower of Summer Days by Sarton
1953: The Land of Silence by Sarton
1954: BIRTHDAY of Helena Maria Viramontes
I Knew a Phoenix by Sarton
1955: A Good Man is Hard to Find, and Other Stories by O'Connor
Faithful Are the Wounds by Sarton
1960: The Violent Bear It Away by O'Connor
Epithalamium by Yamamoto
Death of Zora Neale Hurston
1961: The Small Room by Sarton
1964: Death of Flannery O'Connor
With Shuddering Fall by Oates
1965: Everything That Rises Must Converge by O'Connor
Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing by Sarton
1966: Trust by Ozick
1967: A Garden of Earthly Delights by Oates
1968: Expensive People by Oates
1969: Tony's Story by Silko them by Oates

1970-1989

1971: The Pagan Rabbi and Other Stories by Ozick
Wonderland by Oates
Flannery O'Connor: The Complete Stories by O'Connor
1973: Do With Me What You Will by Oates
Journal of a Solitude by Sarton
As We Are Now by Sarton
1974: Laguna Women Poems by Silko
1975: The Assassins by Oates
1976: The Childworld by Oates
The Triumph of the Spider Monkey by Oates
Bloodshed and Three Novellas by Oates
1977: Ceremony by Silko
1978: Son of the Morning by Oates
1980: Bellefleur by Oates
Western Stories by Silko
1981: Storyteller by Silko
Angel of Light by Oates
1982: A Bloodsmoor Romance by Oates
Levitation by Ozick
Anger by Sarton
1983: The Cannibal Galaxy by Ozick
Art & Ardor: Essays by Ozick
1984: Mysteries of Winterburn by Oates
1985: Solstice by Oates
Spunk: The Selected Stories by Hurston
The Magnificent Spinster by Sarton
The Moths and Other Stories by Viramontes
A Fire in Fontana by Yamamoto
1986: The Gilded Six-Bits: Love is Fragile by Hurston
Marya: A Life by Oates
1987: T he Messiah of Stockholm by Ozick
1988: Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories by Yamamoto
1989: The Shawl by Ozick
Metaphor & Memory: Essays by Ozick
American Appetites by Oates
You Must Remember This by Oates
The Joy Luck Club by Tan
The Education of Harriet Hatfield by Sarton

1990-2001

1990: Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart by Oates
1991: The Kitchen God's Wife by Tan
Almanac of the Dead: A Novel by Silko
The Rise of Life on Earth by Oates
Heat: And Other Stories by Oates
1992: The Moon Lady by Tan
Black Water by Oates
1993: Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang by Oates
Yellow Woman by Silko
Sacred Water: Narratives and Pictures by Silko
Paris Rats in E.L.A. by Viramontes
1994: What I Lived For by Oates
The Chinese Siamese Cat by Tan
Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque by Oates
1995: The Hundred Secret Senses by Tan
Under the Feet of Jesus by Viramontes
Zombie by Oates
The Wedding by West
The Richer, The Poorer: Stories, Sketches, and Reminiscences by West
Death of May Sarton
1996: First Love by Oates
We Were the Mulvaneys by Oates
Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit Essays by Silko
Love Poem and Slim Man Canyon by Silko
Their Dogs Came with Them by Viramontes
Fame & Folly by Ozick
1997: Sweat by Hurston
The Puttermesser Papers by Ozick
Man Crazy by Oates
1998: Death of Dorothy West
1999: Broke Heart Blues by Oates
Gardens in the Dunes by Silko
2000: The Bonesetter's Daughter by Tan
Blonde by Oates