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1975
 
    
US author E.L. Doctorow sets his novel Ragtime in the early years of the 20th century       
1975
 
    
Canadian novelist Robertson Davies completes his semi-autobiographical Deptford Trilogy       
1976
 
    
Black American author Alex Haley traces his family origins in Africa in Roots       
1978
 
    
US author John Irving has wide success with his novel The World According to Garp       
1980
 
    
US author Sam Shepard's play True West has its premiere in New York       
1982
 
    
Chilean author Isabel Allende publishes her first novel, The House of the Spirits       
1982
 
     
Little Shop of Horrors, by Howard Ashman and Alan Menken, opens in New York        
1984
 
   
US poet Robert Pinsky publishes an acclaimed verse translation, The Inferno of Dante      
1985
 
    
US author Don DeLillo publishes a novel of weird disasters, White Noise       
1985
 
    
Gabriel García Márquez publishes Love in a Time of Cholera, a novel about love rekindled after five decades