Editing 1990s (section)

===Literature===
*Leading talk show host [[Oprah Winfrey]] became an important book influencer in 1996 when she launched the highly successful [[Oprah's Book Club]]. 
*The hugely successful ''[[Harry Potter]]'' series by [[J. K. Rowling]] was introduced in 1997. The series, with seven main novels, would go on to become the [[List of best-selling books|best-selling book]] series in world history and adapted into a [[Harry Potter (film series)|film series]] in 2001.
*[[John Grisham]] was the bestselling author in the United States in the 1990s, with over 60 million copies sold of novels such as ''[[The Pelican Brief]]'', [[The Client (novel)|''The Client'']], and [[The Firm (novel)|''The Firm'']].<ref name = "bestseller">{{cite news| url=http://edition.cnn.com/1999/books/news/12/31/1990.sellers/| work=CNN|title= Grisham ranks as top-selling author of decade|date=31 December 1999|access-date=8 May 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030220172348/http://edition.cnn.com/1999/books/news/12/31/1990.sellers/|archive-date=20 February 2003}}</ref>
*Other successful authors of the 1990s include [[Stephen King]], [[Natsuo Kirino]], [[Danielle Steel]], [[Michael Crichton]], [[James Redfield]], [[Haruki Murakami]], [[Keigo Higashino]] and [[Tom Clancy]].<ref name = "bestseller"/>
*''[[Goosebumps]]'' by [[R. L. Stine]], the second highest-grossing book series in the world, was introduced in 1992 and remained a dominant player in children's literature throughout and after the decade. A [[Goosebumps (1995 TV series)|television series]] released on [[Fox Kids]] alongside a [[Goosebumps (film)|film version]] that released in 2015.
*The decline of diverse study options in university humanities schools due to [[economic rationalism]], leading to a boom in [[purple prose]] heavily influenced by 20th century European [[social theory]] and [[cultural studies]]. In 1996 in what is known as the [[Sokal affair]], a mathematician pranked a cultural studies by tricking them into publishing his nonsensical essay "Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity" on the basis that the journal wasn't peer-reviewed and would publish anything that seemed fashionably left-wing. In 1996 the [[Postmodernism Generator]] used a [[recursive transition network]] to imitate the postmodernist style of humanities writing. 
*1990s saw the rise of independent literature and notable [[self-help book]]s, included ''[[Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus]]'' by [[John Gray (American author)|John Gray]] and ''[[Who Moved My Cheese?]]'' by [[Spencer Johnson (writer)|Spencer Johnson]].
*[[Making Monsters: False Memories, Psychotherapy, and Sexual Hysteria]] (1994)  by Richard Ofshe and Ethan Watters was critical of the [[repressed memory]] therapy that was gaining some traction in [[psychotherapy]].