Brown Girl in the Ring is a novel written by Jamaican-Canadian writer Nalo Hopkinson.
 The novel contains Afro-Caribbean culture with themes of folklore and magical realism.
 It was the winning entry in the Warner Aspect First Novel Contest.
 Since the selection, Hopkinson’s novel has received critical acclaim in the form of the 1999 Locus Award for Best First Novel, and the 1999 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.
"'Destiny" is a 2014 historical fiction novel written by Don Brown.
 It is the prequel to Browns Navy Justice Series, perhaps considered to be Brown's signature literary series.
 Although the novel was the first novel written in the series, it was also the most recently released.
 Set in World War II, the novel's protagonist is Walter Brewer, the grandfather of Navy Justice Series hero, JAG Officer Lieutenant Zack Brewer.
 The storyline climaxes in and around the events surrounding the Battle of Normandy.
 Although the novel was penned in 2003, it was released in 2014, according to Brown, making it the last in the series to be released sequentially, but the first written, chronologically.
Great Sky River is a 1987 novel written by author Gregory Benford as a part of his Galactic Center Saga series of books.
Mary Mackey is an American novelist, poet, and academic.
 She is the author of seven collections of poetry and fourteen novels, including the "New York Times" best-seller "A Grand Passion" and "The Village of Bones", "The Year The Horses Came", "The Horses At The Gate", and "The Fires of Spring", four sweeping historical novels that take as their subject the earth-centered, Goddess-worshiping cultures of Neolithic Europe.
 In 2012, her sixth collection of poetry, "Sugar Zone", won a PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award.
 Her first novel, "Immersion" (Shameless Hussy Press, 1972), was the first novel published by a Second Wave feminist press.
 Long concerned with environmental issues, Mackey frequently writes about the rainforests of Costa Rica and the Brazilian Amazon.
 In the early 1970s, as Professor of English and Writer-In-Residence at California State University, Sacramento, she was instrumental in the founding of the CSUS Women’s Studies Program and the CSUS English Department Graduate Creative Writing Program.
 From 1989-1992, she served as President of the West Coast Branch of PEN American Center involving herself in PEN’s international defense of persecuted writers.
Soldiers' Pay is the first novel published by the American author William Faulkner.
 It was originally published by Boni & Liveright on February 25, 1926.
 It is unclear if Soldiers' Pay is the first novel written by Faulkner.
 It is however the first novel published by the author.
 Faulkner was working on two manuscripts while finishing Soldiers' Pay.
Gurusagaram ("Eternity of Grace") is a 1987 novel written by O. V. Vijayan.
 The novel is a spiritual odyssey into the human psyche.
 It differs in language, vision and characterisation from Vijayan's earlier works such as "Khasakkinte Itihasam" and "Dharmapuranam".
 It won many major awards including the Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award, Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award and Vayalar Award.
Dreaming in Cuban is the first novel written by author Cristina García, and was a finalist for the National Book Award.
 This novel moves between Cuba and the United States featuring three generations of a single family.
 The novel focuses particularly on the women—Celia del Pino, her daughters Lourdes and Felicia, and her granddaughter Pilar.
 While most of the novel is written in the third person, some sections are written in the first person and other sections are epistolary.
 The novel is not told in linear fashion; it moves between characters, places and times.
Jeanette Winterson, OBE (born 27 August 1959) is an award-winning English writer, who became famous with her first book, "Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit", a semi-autobiographical novel about a sensitive teenage girl rebelling against conventional values.
 Some of her other novels have explored gender polarities and sexual identity.
 Winterson is also a broadcaster and a professor of creative writing.
 She is a two-time winner of the Lambda Literary Award, which focuses on LGBT issues.
The Passion is a 1987 novel by British novelist Jeannette Winterson.
 The novel depicts a young French soldier in the Napoleonic army during 1805 as he takes charge of Napoleon's personal larder.
 The novel won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize.
 Publication and subsequent sales of the novel allowed Jeanette to stop working other jobs, and support herself as a full-time writer.
Crow Lake is a 2002 first novel written by Canadian author Mary Lawson.
 It won the Books in Canada First Novel Award in the same year and won the McKitterick Prize in 2003.
 It is set in a small farming community in Northern Ontario, the Crow Lake of the title, and centres on the Morrison family (Kate the narrator, her younger sister Bo and older brothers Matt and Luke) and the events following the death of their parents.
 Kate's childhood story of the first year after their parents' death is intertwined with the story of Kate as an adult, now a successful young academic and planning a future with her partner, Daniel, but haunted by the events of the past.
 In among the narratives are set cameos of rural life in Northern Ontario, and of the farming families of the region.

Question: What was the first novel written by the author of the 1987 novel "The Passion"?
Answer: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit