id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-2815 1987 in literature - Wikipedia .html text/html 2263 333 75 June – Virago Press of London publishes Down the Road, Worlds Away, a collection of short stories ostensibly by Rahila Khan, a young Muslim woman living in England. Tom Wolfe is paid US$5 million for the film rights to his novel The Bonfire of the Vanities (published in book format in October), a record fee to an author at this time.[5] New books[edit] Non-fiction[edit] L. Moore, American science fiction author (born 1911)[10] September 30 – Alfred Bester, American science fiction writer (born 1913) James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: George Mackay Brown, The Golden Bird: Two Orkney Stories National Book Award for Fiction: to Paco's Story by Larry Heinemann National Book Award for Fiction: to Paco's Story by Larry Heinemann Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Peter Taylor, A Summons to Memphis ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-2815.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-2815.txt