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| 1975 |
| | | US author E.L. Doctorow sets his novel Ragtime in the early years of the 20th century | |
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| 1976 |
| | | Black American author Alex Haley traces his family origins in Africa in Roots | |
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| 1978 |
| | | US author John Irving has wide success with his novel The World According to Garp | |
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| 1980 |
| | | US author Sam Shepard's play True West has its premiere in New York | |
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| 1982 |
| | | Little Shop of Horrors, by Howard Ashman and Alan Menken, opens in New York | |
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| 1984 |
| | | US poet Robert Pinsky publishes an acclaimed verse translation, The Inferno of Dante | |
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| 1985 |
| | | US author Don DeLillo publishes a novel of weird disasters, White Noise | |
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| 1987 |
| | | Timberlake Wertenbaker bases her play Our Country's Good on Thomas Keneally's novel The Playmaker | |
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| 1987 |
| | | US author Toni Morrison publishes her novel Beloved, loosely based on a real incident among freed slaves after the Civil War | |
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| 1987 |
| | | US author Tom Wolfe gives a bleak view of contemporary New York in his novel The Bonfire of the Vanities | |
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