Sam Shepard: 'America is on its way out as a culture'. As his seminal 1980 play, True West, is revived in London, the influential playwright reflects on the diminishing global role of the US, and the deaths of his friends Philip Seymour Hoffman and Robin Williams. Laura Barton.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Released. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is the fourth novel in the Harry Potter series written by J. K. Rowling, published on July 8, 2000. The book attracted additional attention because of a pre-publication warning from J. K. Rowling that one of the characters would be murdered in the book.
The Books. Harry Potter and the Sorcererâs Stone was published by Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic in September 1998. The second title in the series, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, was published on June 2, 1999 and debuted at No. 1 on the adult hardcover bestseller lists.