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1968
 
    
Alexander Solzhenitsyn's novel Cancer Ward is smuggled to New York for publication       
1969
 
    
English novelist John Fowles publishes The French Lieutenant's Woman, set in Lyme Regis in the 1860s       
1969
 
    
US novelist Philip Roth publishes Portnoy's Complaint, a monologue in which the hero gives his psychoanalyst a frank description of his sexual frustrations       
1969
 
    
Space-traveller Billy Pilgrim suffers horrors in Kurt Vonnegut's novel Slaughterhouse-Five       
1969
 
    
Canadian author Margaret Atwood publishes her first novel, The Edible Woman       
1970
 
    
US author Maya Angelou publishes her autobiographical first novel, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings       
1973
 
    
Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow conjures up weird events in wartime London       
1973
 
    
US author Stephen King publishes Carrie, the first of his many best-selling horror novels       
1973
 
    
US author Erica Jong publishes her first novel, Fear of Flying       
1973
 
    
Martin Amis, son of Kingsley Amis, publishes his first novel, The Rachel Papers