• Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard's SF novel To the Stars was nominated for a 2001 "Retro" Hugo Award?

Facts on topics related to 2001 in literature

1999 in literature

• the 1999 book A Great Wall: Six Presidents and China won the Lionel Gelber Prize and the New York Public Library's Helen Bernstein Book Award?

2004 in literature

• Alistair Beaton predicted the flooding of New Orleans in his 2004 satirical novel A Planet for the President?
• De brief voor de koning (The Letter for the King) by Tonke Dragt was chosen in 2004 by the judges of the Gouden Griffel as the best Dutch children's novel of the past fifty years?
• Jiang Rong was inspired to write his 2004 novel Wolf Totem during China's Cultural Revolution after a failed attempt to domesticate a wolf?

2005 in literature

• each chapter of the 2005 chick lit romantic comedy novel The Thing About Jane Spring begins with a quote from a Doris Day film?
• the 2005 book Baseball Before We Knew It brought new evidence of the origins of baseball into play?