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Fiction timeline
US author and illustrator Maurice Sendak publishes a fantasy for young children, Where the Wild Things Are
English author Margaret Drabble publishes her first novel, A Summer Birdcage
Roald Dahl publishes a fantasy treat for a starving child, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
English author A.S. Byatt publishes her first novel, Shadow of a Sun
US author Joyce Carol Oates publishes her first novel, With Shuddering Fall
US author Saul Bellow publishes Herzog, a novel featuring a professor of history who is a compulsive sender of messages
English novelist Paul Scott publishes The Jewel in the Crown, the first volume in his 'Raj Quartet'
After a long period of obscurity, Wide Sargasso Sea brings novelist Jean Rhys back into the literary limelight
Flann O'Brien's novel The Third Policeman has a great success when published posthumously
Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez publishes a classic of magic realism, One Hundred Years of Solitude
English author Angela Carter wins recognition with her quirky second novel, The Magic Toyshop
US author William Styron's novel The Confessions of Nat Turner describes a historical slave revolt in 1831
Gore Vidal publishes Myra Breckenridge, featuring a lively transsexual as the central character
Alexander Solzhenitsyn's novel Cancer Ward is smuggled to New York for publication
English novelist John Fowles publishes The French Lieutenant's Woman, set in Lyme Regis in the 1860s
US novelist Philip Roth publishes Portnoy's Complaint, a monologue in which the hero gives his psychoanalyst a frank description of his sexual frustrations
Space-traveller Billy Pilgrim suffers horrors in Kurt Vonnegut's novel Slaughterhouse-Five
Canadian author Margaret Atwood publishes her first novel, The Edible Woman
US author Maya Angelou publishes her autobiographical first novel, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow conjures up weird events in wartime London
US author Stephen King publishes Carrie, the first of his many best-selling horror novels
US author Erica Jong publishes her first novel, Fear of Flying
Martin Amis, son of Kingsley Amis, publishes his first novel, The Rachel Papers
US author E.L. Doctorow sets his novel Ragtime in the early years of the 20th century
English author Ruth Prawer Jhabwala wins the Booker Prize with her novel Heat and Dust
