Jane Austen's novels were first published in America in 1832. An edition of Pride and Prejudice was released in the United States that year.
Jane Austen was born in December of 1775. She began writing very young. Her first published novels were begun in 1796. She was first published in 1811, and she died in 1817, having seen four of her novels published. Two others were published soon after she died. The period of the novels was contemporary with their writing.
This article gives a good idea of the number of novels published annually, broken down in various ways: http://workproduct.wordpress.com/2009/10/14/how-many-novels-are-published-each-year/. The author doesn't specify what percentage of these is first novels, but his article will get you part of the way there: if you can find that percentage elsewhere, and multiply, you'll have your answer. - JimmyKalash
Some of Jane Austen's original book titles include "First Impressions" (later published as "Pride and Prejudice"), "Susan" (later published as "Northanger Abbey"), and "Elinor and Marianne" (later published as "Sense and Sensibility").
It was first published in 1884 in Canada and England, but it was published in1885 in America.
The first book written by Christine Feehan is "Dark Prince," which was published in 1999. It is the first book in her popular "Dark" series, introducing readers to the world of Carpathian warriors and their fated lifemates.
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It was first published in Japan as Detective Conan in 1994, and was published in America as Case Closed in August 2004
Jasmine Aherne is a writer of romantic fiction living in the UK. Her first and second novels will be published in 2009.
For political reasons, the two major novels of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The First Circle and Cancer Ward had to be published outside of the Soviet Union. The appeared in the West in both Russian and English.
The Twilight novel was published in 2005 and The Vampire Diaries first novel, The Awakening, was published in 1999, so The Vampire Diaries novels came before Twilight. But, Twilight, the movie, premiered in 2008 and The Vampire Diaries television series premiered in 2009. So technically, The Vampire Diaries novels came before Twilight novels, but Twilight beat The Vampire Diaries to the punch with a film first.
The name of America's first black woman writer to have a book published is Phillis Wheatley. She published her book of poems, "Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral," in 1773.
Victor Hugo's enduring legacy in France was his first published his first collection of poetry in 1822, his eight published plays, his novels Han d'islande and The Hunchback of Notre Dame.