Sam Shepard: 'America is on its way out as a culture'. 1  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.
The second book, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets was originally published in the UK on 2 July 1998 and in the US on 2 June 1999. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban was then published a year later in the UK on 8 July 1999 and in the US on 8 September 1999. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire was published on 8 July 2000 at the same time by Bloomsbury and Scholastic.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was released on the 16th of November 2001 in the UK & US. It was released under the title Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in the US.he first book and movie in the Harry Potter series, in  America it is known as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's  Stone.    The story follows Harry, an eleven year old â¦ boy who discovers he is  a wizard and begins attending Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and  Wizarding.