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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1997. ==Events== *February 20 - Allen Ginsberg makes his final public appearance at the NYU Poetry Slam.〔 Ginsberg continues to write through his final illness, with his last poem, "Things I'll Not Do (Nostalgias)", written on March 30. *May - Shakespeare's Globe in London, a reconstruction of the Elizabethan Globe Theatre, opens with a production of Shakespeare's ''Henry V''. *June 30 - Publication of J. K. Rowling's first ''Harry Potter'' novel, ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', by Bloomsbury Publishing in London. * October - ''Jacket'' online literary magazine founded. *November 24 - New British Library building in London, designed by Colin St John Wilson, opens to readers. *December 30 - The memoir ''I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings'' by Maya Angelou is removed from the ninth-grade English curriculum in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, because it "portrays white people as being horrible, nasty, stupid people".〔(【引用サイトリンク】CNN">title=Harry Potter, 'Huckleberry Finn' among controversial.. )〕 * Tom Clancy signs a book deal with Pearson Custom Publishing and Penguin Putnam Inc. (both part of Pearson Education), giving him US$50 million for the world-English rights to two new books. A second agreement gives him another US$25 million for a four-year book/multimedia deal. Clancy follows this up with an agreement with Berkley Books for 24 paperbacks to tie in with the an ABC television miniseries in an agreement worth US$22 million bringing the total value of the package to US$97 million. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1997 in literature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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