2004 in literature

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Table of contents

1 Events
2 New Books
3 Births
4 Deaths
5 Awards

Events

Canada Reads selects Guy Vanderhaeghe's The Englishman's Boy to be read across the nation

January 4, John Toland, author and historian
January 4, Joan Aiken, author of The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
January 4, Jeff Nuttall, poet, publisher, and author of Bomb Culture
January 10, Alexandra Ripley, author of Scarlett
January 10/11?, Spalding Gray, actor and author
January 13, Zeno Vendler, philosopher and linguist
January 14, Jack Cady, science fiction author
January 15, Olivia Goldsmith, author
January 15, Alex Barris, Canadian actor and writer
January 22, George Woodbridge, illustrator
January 29, M. M. Kaye, author of The Far Pavilions
29 January, Janet Frame, New Zealand author
February 2, Alan Bullock, historian
February 4, Hilda Hilst, Brazilian novelist
February 5, Frances Partridge, last surviving member of the Bloomsbury group
February 7, Norman Thelwell, cartoonist
February 8, Julius Schwartz, comic book and pulp magazine editor
February 16, Bill Oakley, comic book letterer
February 19, Hermann Krings, German philosopher
February 27, Paul Sweezy, economist and founding editor of the Monthly Review
February 28, Daniel J. Boorstin, historian
February 29, Jerome Lawrence, playwright
March 9, Albert Mol, author, actor, and dancer
30 March, Dr Michael King OBE (b. 15 December 1945), a widely respected New Zealand historian, author and biographer