Editing 1957 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of '''1957'''.
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==Events==
*[[January 10]] – [[T. S. Eliot]] marries his secretary [[Valerie Eliot|Valerie Fletcher]], 30 years his junior, in a private church ceremony in London. His first wife, [[Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot|Vivienne Haigh-Wood]], died in 1947.<ref>{{Cite book |author=John Xiros Cooper |title=The Cambridge Introduction to T. S. Eliot |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XqmNjQzhwV4C&pg=PA20 |date=14 September 2006 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-139-45790-3 |pages=20}}</ref>
*[[January 15]] – The film ''[[Throne of Blood]]'', a reworking of ''[[Macbeth]]'' by [[Akira Kurosawa]] (黒澤明), is released in Japan.
*March – ''[[The Cat in the Hat]]'', written and illustrated by Theodor Geisel as '[[Dr. Seuss]]' as a more entertaining alternative to traditional literacy [[Primer (textbook)|primer]]s for children, is first published in a trade edition in the United States, initially selling an average of 12,000 copies a month, a figure which rises rapidly.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Dr. Seuss & Mr. Geisel |last=Morgan |first=Judith |author2=Neil |publisher=[[Random House]] |location=New York |year=1995 |isbn=0-679-41686-2|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/drseussmrgeisel00morg}}</ref> 
*[[March 13]] – A 1950 Japanese translation of [[D. H. Lawrence]]'s ''[[Lady Chatterley's Lover]]'' by [[Sei Itō]] (伊藤整) is found on appeal to be obscene.
*[[March 15]] – ''[[Élet és Irodalom]]'' (Life and Literature) is first published in Hungary as a literary magazine.
*[[March 21]] – [[C. S. Lewis]] marries [[Joy Gresham]] in a Christian ceremony at her bedside in the [[Churchill Hospital]], Oxford, England.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8OskozFVBMYC&pg=PA287book |title=C.S. Lewis: An examined life |last=Edwards |first=Bruce L. |year=2007 |page=287 |isbn=9780275991173 |access-date=2012-05-17}}</ref>
*[[March 25]] – Copies of [[Allen Ginsberg]]'s ''[[Howl and Other Poems]]'' (first published 1 November [[1956 in literature|1956]]) printed in England are seized by [[United States Customs Service]] officials in [[San Francisco]] on grounds of [[obscenity]].<ref>{{Cite web |first=Jamie L. |last=Rehlaender |title=A Howl of Free Expression: the 1957 Howl Obscenity Trial and Sexual Liberation |date=2015-04-28 |work=Young Historians Conference |url=http://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/younghistorians/2015/oralpres/1 |publisher=Portland State University |access-date=2015-09-29}}</ref> On October 3, in ''People v. Ferlinghetti'', a subsequent prosecution of publisher [[Lawrence Ferlinghetti]] in the city, the work is ruled not to be obscene.<ref>{{Cite web |title='Howl' obscenity prosecution still echoes 50 years later |publisher=First Amendment Center |location=Nashville |date=2007-10-03 |access-date=2015-09-29 |first=Lydia Hailman |last=King |url=http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/%E2%80%98howl%E2%80%99-obscenity-prosecution-still-echoes-50-years-later |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924013256/http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/%E2%80%98howl%E2%80%99-obscenity-prosecution-still-echoes-50-years-later |archive-date=2015-09-24 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
*April – [[John Updike]] moves to [[Ipswich, Massachusetts]], the model for the fictional New England town of Tarbox in his 1968 novel ''[[Couples (novel)|Couples]]''.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DitBYezE3CUC&dq=john+updike+ipswich+1958&pg=PA470 |first=Jack |last=De Bellis |title=The John Updike Encyclopedia |year=2000 |page=470|isbn=9780313299049 }}</ref>
*[[June 2]] – [[Joe Orton]] submits ''The Last Days of Sodom'', a novel jointly written with [[Kenneth Halliwell]], to a publisher; it is rejected within three days and they give up working in partnership.<ref>{{Cite book |author=Arthur Burke |title=Laughter in the Dark: The Plays of Joe Orton |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pX4hAQAAIAAJ |year=2001 |publisher=Greenwich Exchange |isbn=978-1-871551-56-3 |page=13}}</ref>
*[[July 1]] – The opening performance is held at the [[Stratford Shakespeare Festival|Stratford Shakespearean Festival]]'s Festival Theatre in [[Stratford, Ontario]], with its [[thrust stage]] designed by [[Tanya Moiseiwitsch]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Stratford Story |url=http://www.stratfordfestival.ca/about/history.aspx?id=8217 |publisher=Stratford Festival |access-date=2014-02-25 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140126114811/http://www.stratfordfestival.ca/about/history.aspx?id=8217 |archive-date=2014-01-26 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |first=Tyrone |last=Guthrie |author-link=Tyrone Guthrie |orig-date=1959 |year=1987 |title=A Life in the Theatre |url=https://archive.org/details/lifeintheatre00guth |url-access=registration |publisher=McGraw Hill |isbn=978-0-86287-381-3}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |first=Martin |last=Hunter |title=Romancing the Bard: Stratford at Fifty |url=https://archive.org/details/romancingbardstr0000hunt |url-access=registration |location=Toronto |publisher=Dundurn Press |year=2001 |isbn=978-1-55002-363-3}}</ref>
* [[July 19]] – The largely [[autobiographical novel]] ''[[The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold]]'' by [[Evelyn Waugh]] is published.<ref>{{cite book |author-link=Selina Hastings (writer) |last=Hastings |first=Selina |title=Evelyn Waugh: A Biography |publisher=Sinclair-Stevenson |location=London |year=1994 |isbn=1-85619-223-7 |page=567}}</ref>
*[[August 7]] – [[Italo Calvino]]'s letter of resignation from the [[Italian Communist Party]] appears in ''[[l'Unità]]''.
*October – The first American [[Beat Generation]] (poets [[Allen Ginsberg]] and [[Peter Orlovsky]]) stay at the "[[Beat Hotel]]" (Hotel Rachou) in [[Paris]].<ref>{{Cite book |author=Steven Watson |title=The Birth of the Beat Generation: Visionaries, Rebels, and Hipsters, 1944-1960 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ou4pAQAAMAAJ |year=1998 |publisher=Pantheon Books |isbn=978-0-375-70153-5 |page=273}}</ref>
*[[November 22]] – [[Boris Pasternak]]'s novel ''[[Doctor Zhivago (novel)|Doctor Zhivago]]'' is first published, in Italian translation, by [[Giangiacomo Feltrinelli]] in Milan, having been rejected for publication in the [[Soviet Union]].
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**''[[Justine (Durrell novel)|Justine]]'', the first novel in [[Lawrence Durrell]]'s ''[[The Alexandria Quartet]]'', is published.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Walton Beacham|author2=Suzanne Niemeyer|title=Popular World Fiction, 1900-present: Do-La|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kWcqAQAAIAAJ|year=1987|publisher=Beacham Publishing|isbn=978-0-933833-08-1|page=481}}</ref> The last will be published in 1960.
**[[Dorothy Parker]] begins writing book reviews for ''[[Esquire (magazine)|Esquire]]''.
**[[E. E. Cummings]] gains a special citation from the [[National Book Award]] Committee in the United States for his ''Poems, 1923–1954''.<ref>{{Cite book |author=Norman Friedman |title=E. E. Cummings: The Art of His Poetry |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8MrHDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT11 |date=1 December 2019 |publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press |isbn=978-1-4214-3568-8 |pages=11}}</ref>
**[[Malcolm Muggeridge]] is replaced by [[Bernard Hollowood]] as editor of the British ''[[Punch (magazine)|Punch]]'' magazine.<ref>{{Cite book |author=Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain) |title=Journal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xC_bAAAAMAAJ |year=1980 |publisher=Royal Society of Arts |page=387}}</ref>
**The [[Harry Ransom Center]] for research in the humanities is founded in the [[University of Texas at Austin]] by [[Harry Ransom (academic administrator)|Harry Ransom]].<ref>{{Cite book |title=The APHA Newsletter: A Publication of the American Printing History Association |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=abQgAQAAMAAJ |year=1991 |publisher=The Association |page=18}}</ref>
**[[John Sandoe]] opens a bookshop in [[Chelsea, London]].
**[[Noh]] is inscribed as an [[Intangible Cultural Property (Japan)]].
**Three neo-[[Grotesque (typeface classification)|Grotesque]] [[sans-serif]] [[typeface]]s are released: [[Folio (typeface)|Folio]] (designed by Konrad Bauer and Walter Baum), [[Helvetica|Neue Haas Grotesk]] ([[Max Miedinger]]) and [[Univers]] ([[Adrian Frutiger]]), will influence the [[International Typographic Style]] of [[graphic design]].<ref>{{Cite book |author1=Philip B. Meggs |author2=Rob Carter |title=Typographic Specimens: The Great Typefaces |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AHq-uK6F-PUC&pg=PA139 |date=15 December 1993 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |isbn=978-0-471-28429-1 |pages=139}}</ref>

==New books==
===Fiction===
*[[Caridad Bravo Adams]] – ''[[Corazón salvaje (novel)|Corazón salvaje]]''
*[[James Agee]] – ''[[A Death in the Family]]''
*[[Lars Ahlin]] – ''Natt i marknadstältet'' (Night in the Market Tent)
*[[Isaac Asimov]]
**''[[Earth Is Room Enough]]''
**''[[The Naked Sun]]''
*[[John Bingham (author)|John Bingham]] – ''[[Murder Off the Record]]''
*[[Ray Bradbury]] – ''[[Dandelion Wine]]''
*[[John Braine]] – ''[[Room at the Top (novel)|Room at the Top]]''
*[[Fredric Brown]] – ''[[Rogue in Space]]''
*[[Pearl S. Buck]] – ''[[Letter from Peking]]''
*[[Michel Butor]] – ''[[La Modification]]''
*[[John Dickson Carr]] – ''[[Fire, Burn!]]''
*[[Louis-Ferdinand Céline]] – ''[[Castle to Castle]] (D'un château l'autre)''
*[[John Cheever]] – ''[[The Wapshot Chronicle]]''
*[[Agatha Christie]] – ''[[4.50 from Paddington]]''
*[[Mark Clifton]] and [[Frank Riley (author)|Frank Riley]] – ''[[They'd Rather Be Right]]''
*[[Ivy Compton-Burnett]] – ''A Father and His Fate''
*[[Thomas B. Costain]] – ''Below the Salt''
*[[James Gould Cozzens]] – ''[[By Love Possessed (novel)|By Love Possessed]]''
*[[L. Sprague de Camp]] – ''[[Solomon's Stone]]''
* [[Freeman Wills Crofts]] – ''[[Anything to Declare? (novel)|Anything to Declare?]]''
*[[Cecil Day-Lewis]] – ''[[End of Chapter]]''
*[[Daphne du Maurier]] – ''[[The Scapegoat (Du Maurier novel)|The Scapegoat]]''
*[[Lawrence Durrell]] – ''[[Justine (Durrell novel)|Justine]]''
*[[Shusaku Endo]] (遠藤 周作) – ''The Sea and Poison'' (海と毒薬)
*[[Ian Fleming]]
**''[[The Diamond Smugglers]]''
**''[[From Russia, with Love (novel)|From Russia, with Love]]''
*[[Janet Frame]] – ''Owls Do Cry''
*[[Sarah Gainham]] 
** ''[[The Cold Dark Night]]''
** ''[[The Mythmaker]]''
*[[Jean Giono]] – ''[[The Straw Man]]'' (''Le Bonheur fou'')
*[[José Giovanni]] – ''[[The Break (Giovanni novel)|The Break]] (Le Trou)''
*[[Martyn Goff]] – ''The Plaster Fabric''
*[[Richard Gordon (English author)|Richard Gordon]] – ''[[Doctor in Love (novel)|Doctor in Love]]''
*[[Winston Graham]] – ''[[Greek Fire (novel)|Greek Fire]]''
*[[L.P. Hartley]] – ''[[The Hireling (novel)|The Hireling]]''
*[[Bill Hopkins (novelist)|Bill Hopkins]] – ''[[The Divine and the Decay]]''
*[[Aldous Huxley]] – ''[[Collected Short Stories (Huxley)|Collected Short Stories]]''
*[[James Jones (author)|James Jones]] – ''[[Some Came Running (novel)|Some Came Running]]''
*[[Anna Kavan]] – ''Eagle's Nest''
*[[Jack Kerouac]] – ''[[On the Road]]''
*[[Frances Parkinson Keyes]] – ''Blue Camellia''
*[[Christopher Landon (screenwriter)|Christopher Landon]] – ''Ice Cold in Alex''
*[[Halldór Laxness]] – ''[[The Fish Can Sing]] (Brekkukotsannáll)''
*[[Chin Yang Lee]] – ''[[The Flower Drum Song]]''
*[[Meyer Levin]] – ''Compulsion''
*[[H. P. Lovecraft]] and [[August Derleth]] – ''[[The Survivor and Others]]''
*[[John D. MacDonald]] – [[The Executioners (MacDonald novel)|''The Executioners'']]
*[[Compton Mackenzie]] – ''[[Rockets Galore (novel)|Rockets Galore]]''
*[[Józef Mackiewicz]] – ''[[:pl:Kontra (powieść)|Kontra]]''
*[[Alistair MacLean]]
**''[[The Guns of Navarone (novel)|The Guns of Navarone]]''
**''[[South by Java Head]]''
*[[Naguib Mahfouz]] – ''Sugar Street''
*[[Bernard Malamud]] – ''[[The Assistant (Malamud novel)|The Assistant]]''
*[[Richard Mason (novelist 1919–1997)|Richard Mason]] – ''[[The World of Suzie Wong]]''
*[[James A. Michener]] – ''[[Rascals in Paradise (book)|Rascals in Paradise]]''
*[[Gladys Mitchell]] – ''[[The Twenty-Third Man]]''
*[[Nancy Mitford]] – ''[[Voltaire in Love]]''
*[[C. L. Moore]] – ''Doomsday Morning''
*[[Elsa Morante]] – ''[[L'isola di Arturo]]''
*[[Sławomir Mrożek]] – ''Słoń'' (The Elephant, short stories)
*[[Iris Murdoch]] – ''[[The Sandcastle (novel)|The Sandcastle]]''
*[[Vladimir Nabokov]] – ''[[Pnin (novel)|Pnin]]''
*[[Björn Nyberg]] and [[L. Sprague de Camp]] – ''[[The Return of Conan]]''
*[[Marcel Pagnol]] – ''[[Le Château de ma mère]]''
*[[Boris Pasternak]] – ''[[Doctor Zhivago (novel)|Doctor Zhivago]]''
*[[Anthony Powell]] – ''[[At Lady Molly's]]''
*[[Maurice Procter]] – ''[[The Midnight Plumber]]''
*[[Qu Bo (writer)|Qu Bo]] (曲波) – ''Tracks in the Snowy Forest'' ([[:zh:林海雪原|林海雪原]])
*[[Ayn Rand]] – ''[[Atlas Shrugged]]''
*Robert Randall (pseudonym of [[Robert Silverberg]] and [[Randall Garrett]]) – ''[[The Shrouded Planet]]''
*[[Alain Robbe-Grillet]] – ''[[La Jalousie]]''
*[[Douglas Rutherford]] – ''[[The Long Echo]]''
*[[Nevil Shute]] – ''[[On the Beach (novel)|On the Beach]]''
*[[Robert Paul Smith]] – ''Where Did You Go? Out. What Did You Do? Nothing''
*[[Muriel Spark]] – ''The Comforters''
*[[Howard Spring]] – ''[[Time and the Hour]]''
*[[John Steinbeck]] – ''[[The Short Reign of Pippin IV]]''
*[[Rex Stout]]
**''[[Three for the Chair]]''
**''[[If Death Ever Slept]]''
*[[Julian Symons]] – ''[[The Colour of Murder]]''
*[[Elizabeth Taylor (novelist)|Elizabeth Taylor]] – ''[[Angel (novel)|Angel]]''
*[[Kay Thompson]] – ''Eloise in Paris''
*[[Roger Vailland]] – ''[[The Law (1957 novel)|La Loi]]''
*[[Jack Vance]] – ''[[Big Planet]]''
*[[Arved Viirlaid]] – ''Seitse kohtupäeva'' (Seven Days of Trial)
*[[Sir Henry Aubrey-Fletcher, 6th Baronet|Henry Wade]] – ''[[The Litmore Snatch]]''
*[[Evelyn Waugh]] – ''[[The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold]]''
*[[Patrick White]] – ''[[Voss (novel)|Voss]]''
*[[Angus Wilson]] – ''[[A Bit Off the Map]]''
*[[John Wyndham]] – ''[[The Midwich Cuckoos]]''
*[[Ivan Yefremov]] – ''[[Andromeda (novel)|Andromeda Nebula]]''
*[[Frank Yerby]] – ''[[Fairoaks (novel)|Fairoaks]]''

===Children and young people===
*[[Mabel Esther Allan]] – ''Ballet for Drina''<ref>Hahn 2015, p. 20</ref>
*[[Gillian Avery]] – ''The Warden's Niece''<ref>Hahn 2015, p. 43</ref>
*[[Rev. W. Awdry]] – ''[[List of Railway Series Books#The Eight Famous Engines|The Eight Famous Engines]]'' (twelfth in ''[[The Railway Series]]'' of 42 books by him and his son [[Christopher Awdry]])
*Narain Dixit – ''Khar Khar Mahadev'' (serialized)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hunt |first1=Peter |title=International Companion Encyclopedia of Children's Literature |date=2 August 2004 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-134-43684-2 |page=1080 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t1RsBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA1080 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[Aileen Fisher]] – ''A Lantern in the Window''
*[[Edward Gorey]] – ''The Doubtful Guest''
*[[Éva Janikovszky]] – ''Csip-csup'' (Piffling)
*[[Tove Jansson]] – ''[[Moominland Midwinter]] (Trollvinter)''
*[[Harold Keith]] – ''[[Rifles for Watie]]''<ref>Hahn 2015, p. 321</ref>
*[[Elinor Lyon]] – ''Daughters of Aradale''
*[[William Mayne]] – ''[[A Grass Rope]]''<ref>Hahn 2015, p. 382</ref>
*[[Otfried Preußler]] – ''Die kleine Hexe'' (The Little Witch)<ref>{{Cite book |title=International P.E.N Bulletin of Selected Books |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Jay5AAAAIAAJ |year=1966 |page=76}}</ref>
*[[Dr. Seuss]]
**''[[The Cat in the Hat]]''<ref>Hahn 2015, p. 528</ref>
**''[[How the Grinch Stole Christmas!]]''<ref>{{Cite book |author=Tim Stafford |title=Teaching Visual Literacy in the Primary Classroom: Comic Books, Film, Television and Picture Narratives |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GUBZBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA176|date=22 July 2010 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-136-93678-4 |pages=176}}</ref>
*[[Pat Smythe]] – ''Jacqueline Rides for a Fall'' (first of the Three Jays series of seven books)
*[[Elizabeth George Speare]] – ''[[Calico Captive]]''
*[[Tomi Ungerer]] – ''The Mellops Go Flying''
*[[Dare Wright]] – ''[[The Lonely Doll]]''

===Drama===
<onlyinclude>
*[[Samuel Beckett]] – ''[[Endgame (play)|Endgame]]'' and ''[[Act Without Words I]]'' (first performed); ''[[All That Fall]]'' and ''[[From an Abandoned Work]]'' (first broadcast of both)
*[[Emilio Carballido]] – ''[[El censo]]''
*[[William Douglas Home]] – ''[[The Iron Duchess]]''
*[[Christopher Fry]] – ''[[The Dark is Light Enough (play)|The Dark is Light Enough]]''
*[[Jean Genet]] – ''[[The Balcony]]'' (''Le Balcon'')
*[[Günter Grass]] – ''Flood (Hochwasser)''
*[[Graham Greene]] – ''[[The Potting Shed]]''
*[[Michael Clayton Hutton]] – ''[[Silver Wedding (play)|Silver Wedding]]''
*[[William Inge]] – ''[[The Dark at the Top of the Stairs]]''
*[[Errol John]] – ''[[Moon on a Rainbow Shawl]]''
*[[Bernard Kops]] – ''The Hamlet of Stepney Green''
*[[John Osborne]]
**''[[The Entertainer (play)|The Entertainer]]''
**''[[Epitaph for George Dillon]]''
*[[Harold Pinter]] – ''[[The Dumb Waiter]]'' (written)
*[[N. F. Simpson]] – ''A Resounding Tinkle''
*[[Wole Soyinka]] – ''The Invention''
*[[Boris Vian]] – ''Les Bâtisseurs d'Empire (The Empire Builders)''
*[[Tennessee Williams]]
**''[[Baby Doll]]''
**''[[Orpheus Descending]]''</onlyinclude>

===Poetry===
*[[Robert E. Howard]] – ''[[Always Comes Evening]]''
*[[Ted Hughes]] – ''[[The Hawk in the Rain]]''
*[[Pier Paolo Pasolini]] – ''Le ceneri di Gramsci''
*[[Octavio Paz]] – ''[[Piedra de Sol]]''
*[[Jibanananda Das]] – ''[[Rupasi Bangla]]''
*[[Robert Penn Warren]] – ''Promises: Poems, 1954–1956''.  Won National Book Award for Poetry  – Won 1958 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

===Non-fiction===
*[[Abdelmajid Benjelloun]] – ''Fī l-Ṭufūla''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://brill.com/view/journals/phen/6/1-2/article-p179_7.xml|title=Al-Tuhāmī al-Wazzānī's Embodied Reading of Morocco's Nahḍa|website=Brill|access-date=January 9, 2022}}</ref>
*[[B. R. Ambedkar]] (died 1956) – ''[[The Buddha and His Dhamma]]''<ref>{{cite book |first=Babasheb |last=Ambedkar |author-link=B. R. Ambedkar |year=1979 |orig-year=1957 |title=The Buddha and His Dhamma |series=Dr.&nbsp;Babasheb Ambedkar, writings and speeches |volume=11 |department=Education Department |publisher=Government of [[Maharashtra]] |url=http://drambedkarwritings.gov.in/upload/uploadfiles/files/Volume_11.pdf |access-date=2021-03-22}}</ref>
*[[G. E. M. Anscombe]] – ''Intention''
*[[Catherine Drinker Bowen]] – ''The Lion and the Throne: The Life and Times of Sir Edward Coke (1552–1634)''. Wins 1958 National Book Award for Nonfiction<ref>{{cite book | last = Smith | first = David | title = Sir Edward Coke and the reformation of the laws: religion, politics and jurisprudence, 1578-1616 | publisher = Cambridge University Press | location = Cambridge, United Kingdom | year = 2014 | isbn = 9781107069299 | page=1}}</ref>
*[[Gerald Brenan]] – ''[[South from Granada|South from Granada: Seven Years in an Andalusian Village]]''<ref>{{cite book | editor-last = Speake | editor-first = Jennifer | editor-link=Jennifer Speake | title = Literature of travel and exploration: an encyclopedia | publisher = Fitzroy Dearborn | location = New York | year = 2003 | isbn = 9781579584405 | page=1119}}</ref>
*[[Milovan Đilas|M. Đilas]] – ''The New Class''
*[[Will Durant]] – ''[[The Reformation]]''. Nominated for National Book Award for Nonfiction
*[[Elisabeth Elliot]] – ''[[Through Gates of Splendor]]''
*[[Charles Evans (mountaineer)|Charles Evans]] – ''Kangchenjunga: The Untrodden Peak''
*[[Douglas Southall Freeman]] – ''George Washington: A Biography''. Wins 1958 Pulitzer Prize for Biography; nominated for National Book Award for Nonfiction
*[[Northrop Frye]] – ''[[Anatomy of Criticism]]: Four Essays''
*[[Patience Gray]] and Primrose Boyd – ''Plats du jour'', illustrated by [[David Gentleman]]
*[[Louis M. Hacker]] – ''Alexander Hamilton in the American''. Nominated for National Book Award for Nonfiction
*[[Bray Hammond]] – ''[[Banks and Politics in America]]''.  Won 1958 Pulitzer Prize for History
*[[Gilbert Highet]] – ''Poets in a Landscape''. Nominated for 1958 National Book Award for Nonfiction
*[[Richard Hoggart]] – ''[[The Uses of Literacy]]''
*[[Eric John Holmyard]] – ''Alchemy''
*[[Stuart Holroyd]] – ''[[Emergence from Chaos]]''
*[[Ernst Kantorowicz]] – ''The King's Two Bodies''
*[[Henry Kissinger]] – ''Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy''. Nominated for National Book Award for Nonfiction
*[[Primo Levi]] – ''[[If This Is a Man]] (Se Questo è un Uomo)''
*[[Art Linkletter]] – ''[[Kids Say the Darndest Things]]''
*[[Christopher Lloyd (gardener)|Christopher Lloyd]] – ''The Mixed Border''
*[[Mary McCarthy (author)|Mary McCarthy]] – ''[[Memories of a Catholic Girlhood]]''. Nominated for National Book Award for Nonfiction
*[[Tom Maschler]] (ed.) – ''[[Declaration (anthology)|Declaration]]'' (anthology)
*[[Eliot Ness]] and [[Oscar Fraley]] – ''[[The Untouchables (1957 book)|The Untouchables]]''
*[[Iris Origo]] – ''The Merchant of Prato'' (life and commercial career of [[Francesco di Marco Datini]])<ref>{{cite book | last = Crabb | first = Ann | title = The merchant of Prato's wife: Margherita Datini and her world, 1360-1423 | publisher = University of Michigan Press | location = Ann Arbor | year = 2015 | isbn = 9780472119493 | page=267}}</ref>
*[[Walt Whitman Rostow]] & [[Max F. Milliken]] – ''A Proposal: Key to an Effective Foreign Policy''. Nominated for National Book Award for Nonfiction
*[[Jean-Paul Sartre]] – ''[[Search for a Method]] (Questions de méthode)''
*[[David Schoenbrun]] – ''As France Goes''. Nominated for National Book Award for Nonfiction
*[[Rodolfo Walsh]] – ''[[Operación Masacre]]''<ref>{{cite book | last = Podalsky | first = Laura | title = Specular city: transforming culture, consumption, and space in Buenos Aires, 1955-1973 | publisher = Temple University Press | location = Philadelphia | year = 2004 | isbn = 9781566399487 | page=23}}</ref>
*[[Ian Watt]] – ''The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding''
*[[Alan Watts]] – ''[[The Way of Zen]]''<ref>{{cite book|title=America's Alternative Religions|editor=Timothy Miller|publisher=State University of New York Press|year=1995|isbn=978-1438430935|url=https://archive.org/details/americasalternat00mill|url-access=registration|page=[https://archive.org/details/americasalternat00mill/page/164 164]}}</ref>
*[[Karl August Wittfogel|K. A. Wittfogel]] – ''Oriental Despotism''

==Births==
*[[January 7]] – [[Nicholson Baker]], American novelist
*[[January 16]] – [[Stella Tillyard]], English writer and historian{{citation needed|date=November 2021}}
*[[January 22]] – [[Francis Wheen]], English journalist and author{{citation needed|date=November 2021}}
*[[January 27]] – [[Frank Miller]], American comic-book cartoonist and scriptwriter<ref>{{cite journal|journal= [[Comics Buyer's Guide]]|issue= 1650|title= Comics Industry Birthdays|page= 107|date= February 2009|location= Iola, Wisconsin}}</ref>
*[[February 11]] – [[Mitchell Symons]], English writer and journalist{{citation needed|date=June 2024}}
*[[February 15]] – [[Shahriar Mandanipour]], Iranian writer{{citation needed|date=June 2024}}
*[[March 3]] – [[Nicholas Shakespeare]], English novelist and biographer<ref>{{cite book|title=People of Today|publisher=Debrett's Peerage Limited|year=2006|page=1468}}</ref>
*[[March 7]] – [[Robert Harris (novelist)|Robert Harris]], English novelist and current-affairs writer<ref>{{cite book | last = LastName | first = FirstName | title = Chase's calendar of events 2021 : the ultimate go-to guide for special days, weeks and months | publisher = Rowman & Littlefield | location = Lanham, Maryland | year = 2020 | isbn = 9781641434249 | page=164}}</ref>
*[[March 20]] – [[John Grogan]], American journalist and non-fiction writer{{citation needed|date=June 2024}} 
*[[March 23]] – [[Ananda Devi]], Mauritian francophone fiction writer and poet<ref name=imlr>
{{cite web |url=http://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/centre-study-contemporary-womens-writing/languages/french/ananda-devi |title=Ananda Devi |publisher=The Institute of Modern Languages Research |access-date=9 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150109172230/http://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/centre-study-contemporary-womens-writing/languages/french/ananda-devi |archive-date=2015-01-09 |url-status=dead }}
</ref>
*[[March 26]] – [[Paul Morley]], English music journalist
*[[March 29]] – [[Elizabeth Hand]], American science fiction and fantasy writer
*[[April 3]]
**[[Rainer Karlsch]], German historian
**[[Unni Lindell]], Norwegian novelist
*[[May 13]] – [[Koji Suzuki (writer)|Koji Suzuki]], Japanese author and screenwriter<ref>{{cite book|author=Denis Meikle|title=The Ring Companion|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ARIcAQAAIAAJ|year=2005|publisher=Titan|isbn=978-1-84576-001-4|page=14}}</ref>
*[[May 17]] – [[Peter Høeg]], Danish novelist<ref>{{cite book|author=Gale, Cengage Learning|title=A Study Guide for Peter Hoeg's "Journey Into A Dark Heart"|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z1y_DAAAQBAJ&pg=PT5|year=2003|publisher=Gale, Cengage Learning|isbn=978-1-4103-5022-0|pages=5}}</ref>
*[[May 23]] – [[Craig Brown (satirist)|Craig Brown]], English satirist
*[[June 8]] – [[Scott Adams]], American satirist<ref>{{cite book | title = Chase's Calendar of Events 2019 : the ultimate go -to guide for special days, weeks and months | publisher = Bernan Press | year = 2018 | isbn = 9781641432641 | page=315}}</ref>
*[[July 12]] – [[Pino Quartullo]], Italian actor, director, screenwriter and playwright{{citation needed|date=June 2024}}
*[[July 14]] – [[Andrew Nicholls]], English-born Canadian screenwriter
*[[July 29]] – [[Liam Davison]], Australian novelist (died [[2014 in literature|2014]] in air crash)
*[[August 24]] – [[Stephen Fry]], English comedy performer, broadcast presenter and writer<ref>{{cite book | last = Rubinstein | first = W. D. | title = The Palgrave dictionary of Anglo-Jewish history | publisher = Palgrave Macmillan | location = Basingstoke | year = 2011 | isbn = 9781403939104 | page=307}}</ref>
* [[August 25]] – [[Simon McBurney]], British actor, writer and theatre director<ref>{{cite web |title=Playbill Vault's Today in Theatre History: August 25 |url=https://playbill.com/article/playbill-vaults-today-in-theatre-history-august-25-com-107870 |website=[[Playbill]] |access-date=8 June 2023}}</ref>
*[[September 11]] - [[James McBride (writer)|James McBride]], American writer and musician
*[[September 22]] – [[Nick Cave]], Australian author and musician
*[[October 9]] – [[Herman Brusselmans]], Belgian novelist, poet, playwright and columnist<ref>{{cite book |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12075031c |title=Notice de personne "Brusselmans, Herman (1957-....)" |trans-title=Person notice "Brusselmans, Herman (1957-....)" |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |date=12 March 2008 |access-date=27 May 2023}}</ref>
*[[October 28]] - [[Catherine Fisher]], British poet and children's writer
*[[December 3]] – [[Anne B. Ragde]], Norwegian novelist
*[[December 11]] – [[William Joyce (writer)|William Joyce]], American children's author
*[[December 12]] – [[Robert Lepage]], Canadian playwright
*''unknown dates''
**[[Peter Armstrong (poet)|Peter Armstrong]], English poet and psychotherapist
**[[John Doyle (critic)|John Doyle]], Irish-born Canadian critic
**[[Ana Santos Aramburo]], Spanish national librarian
**[[Melanie Rae Thon]], American author

==Deaths==
*[[January 10]] – [[Gabriela Mistral]], Chilean poet (born [[1889 in literature|1889]])<ref>{{cite book|first=Marie-Lise|last=Gazarian-Gautier|chapter=The Walking Geography of Gabriela Mistral|editor-first=Marjorie|editor-last=Agosín|title=Gabriela Mistral: The Audacious Traveler|location=Athens|publisher=Ohio University Press|year=2003|page=270|isbn=978-0-89680-230-8}}</ref>
*[[January 13]] – [[A. E. Coppard]], English short story writer and poet (born [[1878 in literature|1878]])<ref>{{cite book | last = Riggs | first = Thomas | title = Reference guide to short fiction | publisher = St. James Press | location = Detroit | year = 1999 | isbn = 9781558622227 | page=162}}</ref>
*[[January 19]] – [[Barbu Lăzăreanu]], Romanian literary historian, poet, and communist journalist (heart attack, born [[1881 in literature|1881]])
*[[February 10]] – [[Laura Ingalls Wilder]], American author (born [[1867 in literature|1867]])<ref>{{cite news |agency=[[Associated Press]] |title=Laura I. Wilder, Author, Dies at 90. Writer of the 'Little House' Series for Children Was an Ex-Newspaper Editor. Wrote First Book at 65 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/02/12/archives/laura-i-wilder-author-dies-at-90-writer-of-the-little-house-series.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=February 12, 1957 |access-date=October 24, 2012 }}</ref>
*[[March 7]] – [[Wyndham Lewis]], British novelist (born [[1882 in literature|1882]])
*[[March 9]] – [[Rhoda Power]], English children's writer and broadcaster (born [[1890 in literature|1890]])
*[[March 12]] – [[John Middleton Murry]], English critic (born [[1889 in literature|1889]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-century British Literary Biographers|publisher=Gale Research|year=1995|page=168}}</ref>
*[[March 28]] – [[Christopher Morley]], American journalist, novelist and poet (born [[1890 in literature|1890]])
*[[March 29]] – [[Joyce Cary]], Irish novelist (born [[1888 in literature|1888]])
*[[April 22]] – [[Roy Campbell (poet)|Roy Campbell]], South African poet and satirist (born [[1901 in literature|1901]])<ref>Anna and Teresa Campbell (2011), ''Remembering Roy Campbell: The Memoirs of His Daughters Anna and Tess'', [[Winged Lion Press]]. Edited by Judith Lütge Coullie. Preface by [[Joseph Pearce]]. Page 1.</ref>
*[[June 17]]
**[[May Edginton]], English popular novelist (born [[1883 in literature|1883]])
**[[Dorothy Richardson]], English novelist and journalist (born [[1873 in literature|1873]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Gloria G. Fromm|title=Dorothy Richardson: A Biography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hChbAAAAMAAJ|year=1977|publisher=University of Illinois Press|isbn=978-0-252-00631-9|page=394}}</ref>
*[[June 26]] 
** [[Alfred Döblin]], German novelist (born [[1878 in literature|1878]])<ref>{{cite book | last = Sandford | first = John | title = Encyclopedia of contemporary German culture | publisher = Routledge | location = London New York | year = 1999 | isbn = 9781136816031 | page=155}}</ref>
** [[Malcolm Lowry]], English novelist and poet (born [[1909 in literature|1909]])<ref>{{cite book |last=Slide |first=Anthony |title=Silent Topics: Essays on Undocumented Areas of Silent Film |year=2004 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=978-0810850163 |page=65}}</ref>
*[[July 10]]
**[[Sholem Asch]], Polish-Jewish novelist, dramatist and essayist (born [[1880 in literature|1880]])<ref>{{cite book|title=The Routledge Encyclopedia of Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century|publisher=Taylor & Francis|year=2004|page=86|isbn=9781135456078}}</ref>
**[[Julia Boynton Green]], American author and poet (born [[1861 in literature|1861]])<ref name="RedlandsDailyFacts1957">{{cite news |title=Mrs. Julia B. Green Dies |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/1603992/?terms=Julia%2BBoynton%2BGreen |access-date=22 January 2019 |via=Newspapers.com |publisher=Redlands Daily Facts |date=12 July 1957 |pages=5 }} {{open access}}</ref>
*[[July 19]] – [[Curzio Malaparte]], Italian novelist, playwright, and journalist (cancer, born [[1898 in literature|1898]])
*[[July 21]] – [[Kenneth Roberts (author)|Kenneth Roberts]], American historical novelist (born [[1885 in literature|1885]])
*[[July 23]] – [[Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa]], Italian novelist (born [[1896 in literature|1896]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://palermo.repubblica.it/societa/2017/07/23/news/l_ultima_beffa_al_gattopardo_sulla_lapide_c_e_una_data_di_morte_sbagliata-171456343|title="L'ultima beffa al "Gattopardo", sulla lapide c'è una data di morte sbagliata" - The latest joke at the ''Leopard'', on the tombstone is a wrong death date|author=Giusi Spica|date=23 July 2017|publisher=[[La Repubblica]]}}</ref>
*[[July 24]] – [[Sacha Guitry]], Russian-born French playwright, actor and director (b. [[1885]])<ref>{{cite book|last= Morley|first= Sheridan|year= 1986|title= The Great Stage Stars|location= London|publisher= Angus & Robertson|isbn= 0816014019|url-access= registration|url= https://archive.org/details/greatstagestarsd0000morl|page=153}}</ref>
*[[August 1]] – [[Rose Fyleman]], English writer and poet (born [[1877 in literature|1877]])<ref>{{cite book|last=Hay|first=Ann G.|chapter=Fyleman, Rose (Amy)|editor-first=D.L.|editor-last=Kirkpatrick|title=Twentieth-century Children's Writers|location=London|publisher=Macmillan|year=1978|isbn=978-0-33323-414-3|page=485}}</ref>
*[[August 21]] – [[Mait Metsanurk]], Estonian writer (born [[1879 in literature|1879]])
*[[August 25]] – [[Leo Perutz]], Austrian-born novelist and mathematician (born [[1882 in literature|1882]]) 
*[[September 2]] – [[William Craigie]], Scottish lexicographer (born [[1867 in literature|1867]])
*[[September 12]] – [[José Lins do Rego]], Brazilian novelist (born [[1901 in literature|1901]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Carlos Solé|author2=Maria Isabel Abreu|title=Latin American Writers.|publisher=Scribner|year=1989|page=909}}</ref>
*[[September 22]] – [[Oliver St. John Gogarty]], Irish poet and memoirist (born [[1878 in literature|1878]])<ref>{{cite book | last = Lyons | first = J. B. | title = Oliver St. John Gogarty | publisher = Bucknell University Press | location = Lewisburg Pa | year = 1976 | isbn = 9780838713594 | page=12}}</ref>
*[[October 25]] – [[Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany|Edward Plunkett, Baron Dunsany]], Irish author (born [[1878 in literature|1878]])<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Edward-John-Moreton-Drax-Plunkett-18th-Baron-of-Dunsany |title=Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th baron of Dunsany {{!}} Irish dramatist |encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica |access-date=12 July 2017}}</ref>
*[[October 26]] – [[Nikos Kazantzakis]], Greek novelist (born [[1883 in literature|1883]])
*[[November 8]] – [[Ernest Elmore]] (John Bude), English crime writer and theatre director (born [[1901 in literature|1901]])
*[[November 24]] – [[Alfred Eckhard Zimmern]], English historian and political scientist (born [[1879 in literature|1879]])
*[[December 15]] – [[Mulshankar Mulani]], Gujarati playwright (born [[1867 in literature|1867]])
*[[December 17]] – [[Dorothy L. Sayers]], English crime novelist (born [[1893 in literature|1893]])<ref>{{cite news |title=Dorothy Sayers, Author, Dies at 64 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/98/03/15/home/sayers-obit.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=19 December 1957 |access-date=31 August 2012}}</ref>
*[[December 24]] – [[Arturo Barea]], Spanish journalist, broadcaster and writer (born [[1897 in literature|1897]])
*[[December 25]] – [[Stanley Vestal]], American writer, poet and historian (born [[1877 in literature|1877]])<ref>{{cite book | last = Thrapp | first = Dan | title = Encyclopedia of frontier biography : in three volumes | publisher = University of Nebraska Press | location = Lincoln | year = 1991 | isbn = 9780803294189 | page=217}}</ref>

==Awards==
*[[Carnegie Medal (literary award)|Carnegie Medal]] for children's literature: [[William Mayne]], ''[[A Grass Rope]]''<ref>Hahn 2015, p. 660</ref>
*[[James Tait Black Memorial Prize]] for fiction: [[Anthony Powell]], ''[[At Lady Molly's]]''
*[[James Tait Black Memorial Prize]] for biography: [[Maurice Cranston]], ''Life of [[John Locke]]''
*[[Miles Franklin Award]]: [[Patrick White]], ''[[Voss (novel)|Voss]]''
*[[Newbery Medal]] for [[children's literature]]: [[Virginia Sorenson]], ''[[Miracles on Maple Hill]]''
*[[Nobel Prize for Literature]]: [[Albert Camus]]
*[[Premio Nadal]]: [[Carmen Martín Gaite]], ''[[Entre visillos]]''
*[[Prix Goncourt]]: [[Roger Vailland]], ''[[The Law (novel)|La Loi]]''<ref>{{cite book|title=French News|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L76XXSsmK_0C&pg=RA1-PP28|year=1957|publisher=Published and distributed by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy|pages=18}}</ref>
*[[Pulitzer Prize for Drama]]: [[Eugene O'Neill]], ''[[Long Day's Journey into Night]]''
*[[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction]]: ''no award given''
*[[Pulitzer Prize for Poetry]]: [[Richard Wilbur]]: ''Things of This World''
*[[Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry]]: [[Siegfried Sassoon]]

==Notes==
* {{cite book |last1=Hahn |first1=Daniel |title=The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature |date=2015 |publisher=Oxford. University Press |isbn=9780198715542 |edition=2nd}}

==References==
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