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1988
 
     
M. Butterfly, by US author and composer David Henry Hwang, uses Puccini's opera as its inspiration        
1992
 
    
US author Jane Smiley retells the Lear story in A Thousand Acres       
1992
 
    
US-born Canadian author Carol Shields' novel The Republic of Love is set in her home town of Winnipeg       
1992
 
    
David Mamet's play Oleanna dramatizes the ambiguities of sexual politics       
1992
 
    
All the Pretty Horses is the first volume of US author Cormac McCarthy's trilogy set in Mexico       
1993
 
    
US author A.R. Ammons publishes a book-length poem, Garbage, typed on narrow strips of adding-machine paper       
1993
 
    
US author Annie Proulx wins major awards with her second novel, The Shipping News       
1993
 
     
Millennium Approaches, the first part of Tony Kushner's Angels in America, is premiered in London        
1995
 
    
US poet Philip Levine wins a Pulitzer Prize with his volume of poems Simple Truth       
2012  March 13
 
    
244 years after its launch in Scotland in 1768 the Encyclopedia Britannica publishes its final printed edition