Editing 1962 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of '''1962'''.
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==Events==
*[[January 7]] – In an article in ''[[The New York Times Book Review]]'', [[Gore Vidal]] calls [[Evelyn Waugh]] "our time's first satirist".<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/books/97/05/04/reviews/waugh-battle.html "The Satiric World of Evelyn Waugh"]. Retrieved 18 April 2013.</ref>
*[[February 17]] – [[Arthur Miller]] marries the photographer [[Inge Morath]].<ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1383341/Inge-Morath.html Obituary, retrieved 27 December 2019.]</ref>
*[[February 28]] – [[F. R. Leavis]] delivers the Richmond lecture ''Two Cultures? The Significance of [[C. P. Snow]]'' at [[Downing College, Cambridge]], which arouses controversy.<ref>Published in ''[[The Spectator]]'' (London) March 9.{{Cite journal |last=Gerhardi |first=William |authorlink=William Gerhardie |url=http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/16th-march-1962/9/sir-charles-snow-dr-f-r-leavis-and-the-two |title=Sir Charles Snow, Dr. F. R. Leavis and the Two Cultures |journal=The Spectator |date=1962-03-16 |page=9}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Kimball |first=Roger |year=1994 |url=http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/-The-Two-Cultures--today-4882 |title=The Two Cultures' Today: On the C. P. Snow–F. R. Leavis Controversy |journal=The New Criterion |volume=12 |issue=6 |page=10}}</ref>
*[[May 11]] – The [[Ministry of Education and Culture (Finland)|Finnish Ministry of Education]] forbids the import and distribution of eight children's books (including ''[[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland]]''), published by Kynäbaari, because of the poor quality and clandestine abridgement of the translations.<ref>[http://www.mlang.name/arkisto/KKO-1967-II-10.html Ennakkoratkaisu KKO 1967-II-10.] (A retrospective abstract of the whole process by The [[Supreme Court of Finland]], February 6, 1967. In Finnish.)</ref>
*May – [[Joe Orton]] and [[Kenneth Halliwell]] are prosecuted and jailed for defacing library books in London.
*June 5 – [[Marvel Comics]] publishes ''Amazing Fantasy'' #15, featuring the debut of its ''[[Spider-Man]]'' feature by [[Stan Lee]] and [[Steve Ditko]]. ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' periodical series begins publication in December.
*[[June 30]] – The works of [[Pierre Teilhard de Chardin]] are denounced by the Roman Catholic Church.
*July – The General Law Amendment Act in [[South Africa]] denies [[freedom of speech]] to opposition activists and writers.
*September – [[Ted Hughes]] and [[Sylvia Plath]] separate.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NBlJYGHVESwC&pg=PA9 |first=Connie Ann |last=Kirk |title=Sylvia Plath: A Biography |year=2004 |page=xx}}</ref> From the beginning of the following month, Plath experiences a burst of creativity, writing in the last few months of her life most of the poems on which her reputation will rest. They include many that will appear in ''[[Ariel (poetry collection)|Ariel]]'' and ''Winter Trees''. On October 31, Heinemann in London publish ''The Colossus'' which will be the only collection of her poems published in her lifetime under her own name. In December she moves to a London flat in a house where [[W. B. Yeats]] lived as a boy.
*November – [[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn]]'s [[novella]] ''[[One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich]]'' ({{langx|ru|Оди́н день Ива́на Дени́совича}}, ''Odin den' Ivana Denisovicha''), the author's semi-autobiographical account of life in the [[gulag]], is published in ''[[Novy Mir]]'' in an unprecedented acknowledgement of the [[Soviet Union]]'s [[Stalinist]] past.
*December – [[L. Frank Baum]]'s short story "[[The Tiger's Eye]]" appears for the first time nearly 60 after it was written.
*[[December 4]] – A tape-recorded conversation on science fiction takes place between [[Kingsley Amis]], [[C. S. Lewis]] and [[Brian Aldiss]] in Lewis's rooms at Cambridge.
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**[[Richard Booth]] opens a second-hand bookshop at the old fire station in the future "bookshop town" of [[Hay-on-Wye]] in Wales.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/aug/22/richard-booth-obituary|title=
Richard Booth obituary|author=Oliver Balch|date=22 August 2019|website=The Guardian|access-date=30 June 2020}}</ref>
**[[Lynne Reid Banks]] goes to live in a [[kibbutz]] in Israel.<ref>{{cite book|title=Jewish Observer and Middle East Review|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=29wMAQAAMAAJ|date=July 1975|publisher=William Samuel & Company Limited}}</ref>
**[[George Oppen]] publishes his first collection of poetry since ''Discrete Series'' in [[1934 in poetry|1934]], breaking a 28-year silence. He goes on to win the [[Pulitzer Prize]] in [[1969 in poetry|1969]].
**A parallel text edition of [[George Bernard Shaw]]'s play ''[[Androcles and the Lion (play)|Androcles and the Lion]]'' is published posthumously by [[Penguin Books]] in the UK, as the first published work in the phonetic [[Shavian alphabet]] devised by [[Ronald Kingsley Read]].

==New books==
===Fiction===
*[[Kōbō Abe]] - ''[[The Woman in the Dunes]]''
*[[H. G. Adler]] – ''Eine Reise'' (A Journey)
*[[Nelson Algren]] (editor) – ''Nelson Algren's Own Book of Lonesome Monsters: 13 Masterpieces of Black Humor'' (anthology)
* [[Eric Ambler]] – ''[[The Light of Day (Eric Ambler novel)|The Light of Day]]''
*[[Isaac Asimov]], editor – ''[[The Hugo Winners]]''
*[[James Baldwin (writer)|James Baldwin]] – ''[[Another Country (novel)|Another Country]]''
*[[J. G. Ballard]] – ''[[The Drowned World]]''
*[[William Edmund Barrett|William Barrett]] – ''[[Lilies of the Field (novel)|Lilies of the Field]]''
*[[Giorgio Bassani]] – ''[[The Garden of the Finzi-Continis]] (Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini)''
*[[Thomas Berger (novelist)|Thomas Berger]] – ''Reinhart in Love''
*[[Jorge Luis Borges]] – ''[[Ficciones]]'' (''The Garden of Forking Paths'' and ''Artifices'' translated by Anthony Bonner)
*[[Ray Bradbury]]
**''[[R is for Rocket]]''
**''[[Something Wicked This Way Comes (novel)|Something Wicked This Way Comes]]''
*[[John Braine]] – ''[[Life at the Top]]''
*[[John Brunner (novelist)|John Brunner]]
**''[[Secret Agent of Terra]]''
**''[[The Super Barbarians]]''
*[[Eugene Burdick]] and [[Harvey Wheeler]] – ''[[Fail-Safe (novel)|Fail-Safe]]''
*[[Anthony Burgess]]
**''[[A Clockwork Orange (novel)|A Clockwork Orange]]''
**''[[The Wanting Seed]]''
*[[William S. Burroughs]] – ''[[The Ticket That Exploded]]''
*[[Taylor Caldwell]] – ''A Prologue To Love''
*[[Alejo Carpentier]] – ''[[Explosion in a Cathedral|El Siglo de las Luces]]'' (Age of Enlightenment, translated as ''Explosion in a Cathedral'')
*[[John Dickson Carr]] – ''[[The Demoniacs]]''
*[[Rosario Castellanos]] – ''Oficio de tinieblas'' (The Book of Lamentations)
*[[Agatha Christie]] – ''[[The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side]]''
*[[James Clavell]] – ''[[King Rat (1962 novel)|King Rat]]''
*[[Lionel Davidson]] – ''[[The Rose of Tibet]]''
*[[Len Deighton]] – ''[[The IPCRESS File]]''
*[[August Derleth]]
**''[[Lonesome Places]]''
**''[[The Trail of Cthulhu]]''
*[[August Derleth]], editor – ''[[Dark Mind, Dark Heart]]''
*[[Philip K. Dick]] – ''[[The Man in the High Castle]]''
*[[Tonke Dragt]] – ''[[De brief voor de Koning]]'' (The Letter for the King)
*[[Allen Drury]] – ''[[A Shade of Difference]]''
*[[Richard Gordon (English author)|Richard Gordon]] – ''[[Doctor in the Swim]]''
* [[Edward Grierson]] – ''[[The Massingham Affair]]''
*[[William Faulkner]] – ''[[The Reivers]]''
*[[Gabriel Fielding]] – ''The Birthday King''
*[[Ian Fleming]] – ''[[The Spy Who Loved Me (novel)|The Spy Who Loved Me]]''
*[[C. S. Forester]] – ''[[Hornblower and the Hotspur]]''
*[[Carlos Fuentes]]
**''[[Aura (Fuentes)|Aura]]''
**''[[The Death of Artemio Cruz]]''
*[[Aldous Huxley]] – ''[[Island (Huxley novel)|Island]]''
*[[Hammond Innes]] – ''[[Atlantic Fury]]''
*[[Michael Innes]] – ''[[A Connoisseur's Case]]''
*[[Shirley Jackson]] – ''[[We Have Always Lived in the Castle]]''
*[[James Jones (author)|James Jones]] – ''[[The Thin Red Line (1962 novel)|The Thin Red Line]]''
*[[William Melvin Kelley]] – ''[[A Different Drummer (novel)|A Different Drummer]]''
*[[Jack Kerouac]] – ''[[Big Sur (novel)|Big Sur]]''
*[[Ken Kesey]] – ''[[One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (novel)|One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest]]''
*[[Fletcher Knebel]] and [[Charles W. Bailey II]] – ''[[Seven Days in May (novel)|Seven Days in May]]''
*[[James Krüss]] – ''[[Timm Thaler (novel)|Timm Thaler]]''
*[[Manuel Mujica Láinez]] – ''[[Bomarzo (novel)|Bomarzo]]''
*[[Anna Langfus]] – ''Les bagages de sable'' (Bags of Sand)
*[[John le Carré]] – ''[[A Murder of Quality]]''
*[[Doris Lessing]] – ''[[The Golden Notebook]]''
*[[Anne Morrow Lindbergh]] – ''[[Dearly Beloved (novel)|Dearly Beloved]]''
*[[H. P. Lovecraft]] – ''[[Dreams and Fancies]]''
*[[Eloise McGraw]] – ''[[The Golden Goblet]]''
*[[Alistair MacLean]] – ''[[The Satan Bug (novel)|The Satan Bug]]''
*[[Gabriel García Márquez]] – ''[[In Evil Hour]] (La mala hora)''
*[[Ngaio Marsh]] – ''[[Hand in Glove (novel)|Hand in Glove]]''
*[[Khadija Mastoor]] – ''[[Aangan (novel)|Aangan]]'' (آنگن, Courtyard)
*[[Yukio Mishima]] – ''[[Beautiful Star (novel)|Beautiful Star]]''
* [[Gladys Mitchell]] – ''[[My Bones Will Keep]]''
*[[Marcel Moreau]] – ''[[Quintes (novel)|Quintes]]''
*[[Penelope Mortimer]] – ''[[The Pumpkin Eater]]''
*[[Vladimir Nabokov]] – ''[[Pale Fire]]''
*[[M. T. Vasudevan Nair]] – ''[[Asuravithu (novel)|Asuravithu]]''
* [[Patrick O'Brian]] – ''[[Richard Temple (novel)|Richard Temple]]''
*[[Katherine Anne Porter]] – ''[[Ship of Fools (Porter novel)|Ship of Fools]]''
*[[Zofia Posmysz]] – ''[[Passenger (Posmysz novel)|Passenger]] (Pasażerka)''
*[[Anthony Powell]] – ''[[The Kindly Ones (Powell novel)|The Kindly Ones]]''
*[[Otfried Preußler]] – ''[[The Robber Hotzenplotz]]''
*[[Reynolds Price]] – ''A Long and Happy Life''
*[[J. B. Priestley]] – ''[[The Shapes of Sleep]]''
*[[Mary Renault]] – ''[[The Bull from the Sea]]''
*[[Mercè Rodoreda]] – ''[[The Time of the Doves]]'' (''La plaça del Diamant'')
*[[Sankar (author)|Sankar]] – ''[[Chowringhee (novel)|Chowringhee]]''
*[[Isaac Bashevis Singer]] – ''[[The Slave (Singer novel)|The Slave]]''
*[[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn]] – ''[[One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich]]''
*[[Fernando Soto Aparicio]] – ''[[La rebelión de las ratas]]'' (The Rebellion of the Rats)
*Richard Stark ([[Donald E. Westlake]]) – ''[[The Hunter (Stark novel)|The Hunter]]''
*[[Mary Stewart (novelist)|Mary Stewart]] – ''[[The Moon-Spinners]]''
*[[Rex Stout]]
**''[[Gambit (novel)|Gambit]]''
**''[[Homicide Trinity]]''
*[[Noel Streatfeild]] – ''Travelling Shoes'' (first published as ''Apple Bough'')
*[[Zaim Topčić]] – ''[[Black Snows]]''
*[[Kurt Vonnegut]] – ''[[Mother Night]]''
*[[Irving Wallace]] – ''[[The Prize (novel)|The Prize]]''
*[[Elie Wiesel]] – ''[[Day (Wiesel novel)|Day]]''
*[[David Wilkerson]] – ''[[The Cross and the Switchblade]]''
*[[Herman Wouk]] – ''[[Youngblood Hawke]]''

===Children and young people===
*[[Joan Aiken]] – ''[[The Wolves of Willoughby Chase]]''
*[[Rev. W. Awdry]] – ''[[List of Railway Series Books#Gallant Old Engine|Gallant Old Engine]]'' (seventeenth in ''[[The Railway Series]]'' of 42 books by him and his son [[Christopher Awdry]])
*[[Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire]] – ''Book of Greek Myths''
*[[Tonke Dragt]] – ''[[De brief voor de Koning]]'' (The Letter for the King)
*[[Madeleine L'Engle]] – ''[[A Wrinkle in Time]]''
*[[Penelope Farmer]] – ''[[The Summer Birds]]''
*[[Ezra Jack Keats]] – ''[[The Snowy Day]]'' (picture book)
*[[Jean Little]] – ''[[Mine for Keeps]]''
*[[Eloise Jarvis McGraw]] – ''[[The Golden Goblet]]''
*[[Ruth Park]] – ''[[The Muddle-Headed Wombat]]''
*[[Bill Peet]] – ''Smokey''
*[[Otfried Preußler]] – ''[[The Robber Hotzenplotz]]''
*[[Barbara Sleigh]] – ''[[No One Must Know]]''
*[[Ivan Southall]] – ''[[Hills End]]''
*[[Bernard Waber]] – ''[[The House on East 88th Street]]'' (first in the ''[[Lyle the Crocodile]]'' series)
*[[Stan & Jan Berenstain]] – ''[[The Big Honey Hunt]]'' (first in ''[[The Berenstain Bears]]'' series)

===Drama===
*[[Edward Albee]] – ''[[Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?]]''
*Wilberto Cantón – ''[[Nosotros somos Dios]]'' (We Are God)
*[[Friedrich Dürrenmatt]] – ''[[Die Physiker]]'' (The Physicists)
*[[Witold Gombrowicz]] – ''Historia''
*[[Arthur Kopit]] – ''[[Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad]]''
*[[Spike Milligan]] and [[John Antrobus]] – ''[[The Bed-Sitting Room (play)|The Bed-Sitting Room]]''
*[[David Rudkin]] – ''[[Afore Night Come]]''
*[[Peter Shaffer]] – ''The Private Ear/The Public Eye'' (double bill)
*[[David Turner (dramatist)|David Turner]] – ''[[Semi-Detached (play)|Semi-Detached]]''
*[[Arthur Watkyn]] – ''[[Out of Bounds (play)|Out of Bounds]]''
*[[Wu Han (historian)|Wu Han]] (as Liu Mianzhi) – ''[[Hai Rui Dismissed from Office]]'' ({{Linktext|海|瑞|罢|官}})

===Poetry===
{{Main article|1962 in poetry}}
*[[Bella Akhmadulina]] – ''Struna'' (The String)
*[[George Oppen]] – ''The Materials''
*[[Al Purdy]] – ''Poems for all the Annettes''
*[[William Carlos Williams]] – ''[[Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems]]''

===Non-fiction===
*[[Philippe Ariès]] – ''L'Enfant et la vie familiale sous l'Ancien Régime'' (Children and Family Life under the Ancien Régime, translated as ''[[Centuries of Childhood]]'', 1962)
*[[W. H. Auden]] – ''[[The Dyer's Hand|The Dyer's Hand and other essays]]''
*[[Helen Gurley Brown]] – ''[[Sex and the Single Girl]]''
*[[Rachel Carson]] – ''[[Silent Spring]]''
*[[Thomas B. Costain]] – ''The Last Plantagenets'' (last book in the ''Pageant of England'' series)
*[[L. Sprague de Camp]] – ''[[Energy and Power]]''
*[[August Derleth]] – ''[[100 Books by August Derleth]]''
*[[Milovan Đilas]] – ''[[Conversations with Stalin]]''
*[[Milton Friedman]] – ''[[Capitalism and Freedom]]''
*[[Thomas Kuhn]] – ''[[The Structure of Scientific Revolutions]]''
*[[Dumas Malone]] – ''[[Jefferson and His Time|Jefferson and the Ordeal of Liberty]]''
*[[W. Somerset Maugham]] – ''Looking Back''
*[[V. S. Naipaul]] – ''[[The Middle Passage (book)|The Middle Passage: Impressions of Five Societies – British, French and Dutch in the West Indies and South America]]''
*[[Louis Nizer]] – ''[[My Life in Court]]''
*[[Russell Page]] – ''The Education of a Gardener''
*[[Anthony Sampson]] – ''[[Anatomy of Britain]]''
*[[John Steinbeck]] – ''[[Travels With Charley: In Search of America]]''
*[[Percy Thrower]] – ''Percy Thrower's Encyclopaedia of Gardening''
*[[Barbara Tuchman]] – ''[[The Guns of August]]''
*[[Robert Warshow]] – ''The Immediate Experience''

==Births==
*[[January 17]] – [[Sebastian Junger]], American novelist, journalist and documentary film-maker
*[[January 29]] – [[Olga Tokarczuk]], Polish fiction writer and poet
*[[February 8]] – [[Malorie Blackman]], English writer for young adults and children
*[[February 21]]
**[[Chuck Palahniuk]], American novelist and journalist
**[[David Foster Wallace]], American novelist and essayist (died [[2008 in literature|2008]])
*[[March 7]] – [[Anna Burns]], author from Northern Ireland
*[[March 27]] – [[John O'Farrell (author)|John O'Farrell]], English writer of fiction and non-fiction, comedy scriptwriter and political campaigner
*[[March 30]] – [[Yōko Ogawa]] (小川 洋子), Japanese novelist and essayist
*[[March 31]] – [[Michal Viewegh]], Czech fiction writer
*[[April 2]] – [[Mark Shulman (author)|Mark Shulman]], American children's author
*[[April 6]] – [[Javier Cercas]], Spanish novelist and academic
*[[April 13]] – [[Chris Riddell]], South African-born English children's book illustrator
*[[April 22]] – [[B. Jeyamohan]], Tamil novelist
*[[May 11]] - [[Amir Hamed]], Uruguayan writer, essayist and translator (died [[2017 in literature|2017]])
*[[May 12]] – [[Yang Hongying]] (楊紅櫻), Chinese children's author
*[[May 17]] – [[Lise Lyng Falkenberg]], Danish novelist and biographer
*[[May 19]] – [[Jonathan Dee]], American novelist
*[[June 12]] – [[Jordan Peterson]], Canadian clinical psychologist and writer
*[[July 30]] – [[Lavinia Greenlaw]], English poet and novelist
*[[August 3]] – [[Abdo Khal]], Saudi Arabian writer
*[[August 10]] – [[Suzanne Collins]], American novelist and television writer
*[[August 16]] – [[Christian Cameron]], American-born Canadian writer
*[[August 27]] – [[Sjón]] (Sigurjón Birgir Sigurðsson), Icelandic novelist and poet
*[[September 22]] - [[Nuzo Onoh]], British-Nigerian writer
*[[October 11]] – [[Anne Enright]], Irish novelist
*[[October 19]] – [[Tracy Chevalier]], American historical novelist
*[[October 28]] – [[Mark Haddon]], English novelist and poet
*[[November 4]] - [[Rick Yancey]], American young-adult writer
*[[November 12]]
**[[Neal Shusterman]], American children's author and poet
**[[Naomi Wolf]], American writer and activist
*[[December 17]] – [[Jan Bondeson]], Swedish non-fiction writer

==Deaths==
*[[January 17]] – [[Gerrit Achterberg]], Dutch poet (heart attack, born [[1905 in literature|1905]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Roy Temple House|title=Books Abroad|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cZwJAAAAIAAJ|year=1963|publisher=University of Oklahoma|page=163}}</ref>
*[[January 20]] – [[Robinson Jeffers]], American poet (born [[1887 in literature|1887]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Robinson Jeffers|author2=Tim Hunt|title=The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n_UytKkgbbMC&pg=PA6-IA9|year=2001|publisher=Stanford University Press|isbn=978-0-8047-4108-8|pages=6}}</ref>
*[[January 24]] – [[Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar]], Turkish novelist and essayist (born [[1901 in literature|1901]])
*[[February 16]] – [[Frank Prewett]], Canadian poet (born [[1893 in literature|1893]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Profiles in Canadian Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DHYfAQAAIAAJ|year=1986|publisher=Dundurn|isbn=978-1-55002-001-4|page=61}}</ref>
*[[February 24]] – [[Hu Shih]] (胡適), Chinese Nobel Prize-winning philosopher and language reformer (born [[1891 in literature|1891]])
*[[March 3]] – [[Pierre Benoit (novelist)|Pierre Benoit]], French novelist (born [[1886 in literature|1886]])<ref>{{cite book|title=The Illustrated London News|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3QxDAQAAIAAJ|year=1962|publisher=Illustrated London News & Sketch Limited|page=381}}</ref>
*[[March 16]] – [[Dora Adele Shoemaker]], American poet, playwright, educator (born [[1873 in literature|1873]])
*[[March 20]] – [[C. Wright Mills]], American sociologist (born [[1916 in literature|1916]])
*[[April 1]] – [[Michel de Ghelderode]], Belgian playwright (born [[1898 in literature|1898]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Paul F. State|title=Historical Dictionary of Brussels|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LErne3-05qoC&pg=PA125|date=27 July 2004|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-6555-6|pages=125}}</ref>
*[[April 24]] – [[Emilio Prados]], Spanish poet and editor (born [[1899 in literature|1899]])
*[[May 3]] — [[Helen Dortch Longstreet]], American social advocate, librarian, and newspaper woman (born [[1863 in literature|1863]])
*[[May 24]] – [[E. M. W. Tillyard]], English literary scholar (born [[1889 in literature|1889]])
*[[May 13]] – [[Constantin Gane]], Romanian biographer and historical novelist (torture, born [[1885 in literature|1885]])
*[[May 26]] – [[Wilfrid Wilson Gibson]], English poet (born [[1878 in literature|1878]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Contemporary Authors: A Bio-bibliographical Guide to Current Writers in Fiction, General Nonfiction, Poetry, Journalism, Drama, Motion Pictures, Television and Other Fields|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xcHiAAAAMAAJ|year=1999|publisher=Gale Research Company|isbn=978-0-7876-2674-7|page=157}}</ref>
*[[June 2]] – [[Vita Sackville-West]], English poet and gardener (born [[1892 in literature|1892]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Nigel Nicolson|title=Vita and Harold: The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson 1919–1962|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cqNaDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT371|date=28 June 2018|publisher=Orion|isbn=978-1-4746-1086-5|pages=371}}</ref>
*[[June 27]] – [[Paul Viiding]], Estonian poet and critic (born [[1904 in literature|1904]])
*[[July 6]] – [[William Faulkner]], American novelist and Nobel laureate (born [[1897 in literature|1897]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Gene D. Phillips|title=Fiction, Film, and Faulkner: The Art of Adaptation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Wrm3ZWTfrmEC&pg=PA184|year=1988|publisher=Univ. of Tennessee Press|isbn=978-1-57233-166-2|pages=184}} - Article on book: ''[[Fiction, Film, and Faulkner]]''</ref>
*[[July 8]] – [[Georges Bataille]], French writer (cerebral arteriosclerosis, born 1897)<ref>{{cite book|author=Benjamin Noys|title=Georges Bataille: A Critical Introduction|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5UXi5cyhSMsC&pg=PA13|date=20 May 2000|publisher=Pluto Press|isbn=978-0-7453-1587-4|pages=13}}</ref>
*[[July 21]] – [[G. M. Trevelyan]], English historian (born [[1876 in literature|1876]])
*[[July 27]] – [[Richard Aldington]], English poet and novelist (born [[1892 in literature|1892]])
*[[August 9]] – [[Hermann Hesse]], German-born Swiss novelist, poet and painter (born [[1877 in literature|1877]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Ingo Cornils|title=A Companion to the Works of Hermann Hesse|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fKp0AeFMaRQC&pg=PA6|year=2009|publisher=Camden House|isbn=978-1-57113-330-4|pages=6}}</ref>
*[[September 3]] – [[E. E. Cummings]], American poet (born [[1894 in literature|1894]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Jay Parini|title=The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nMhMAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA345|year=2004|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-515653-9|pages=345}}</ref>
*[[September 21]] – [[Ouyang Yuqian]] (欧阳予倩), Chinese dramatist (born 1889)
*[[September 22]] – [[Jean-René Huguenin]], French novelist and literary critic (born in [[1936 in literature|1936]])<ref>{{cite book|title=French News: Books|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CZ0aAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA18|year=1965|publisher=Cultural Services of the French Embassy|pages=18}}</ref>
*[[September 23]] – [[Patrick Hamilton (writer)|Patrick Hamilton]], English dramatist (liver and kidney failure, born [[1904 in literature|1904]])
*[[November 6]] – [[Howard R. Garis]], American children's fiction writer (born [[1873 in literature|1873]])
*[[November 17]] – [[Sandu Tudor]], Romanian poet, journalist and theologian (stroke and possibly torture, born [[1896 in literature|1896]])
*[[December 3]] – Dame [[Mary Gilmore]], Australian poet and journalist (born [[1865 in literature|1865]])
*[[December 12]] – [[Felix Aderca]], Romanian novelist, critic, poet and journalist (cancer, born [[1891 in literature|1891]])
*[[December 18]] – [[Garrett Mattingly]], American historian (born [[1900 in literature|1900]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Elizabeth A. Brennan|author2=Elizabeth C. Clarage|title=Who's who of Pulitzer Prize Winners|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=63nvmt4HqTEC&pg=PA571|year=1999|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-1-57356-111-2|pages=571}}</ref>
*December – [[Ethel Carnie Holdsworth]], English working class novelist and campaigner (born [[1886 in literature|1886]])

==Awards==
*[[American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medals#Fiction, novel, short story|American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Fiction]]: [[William Faulkner]]
*[[Carnegie Medal (literary award)|Carnegie Medal]] for [[children's literature]]: [[Pauline Clarke]], ''[[The Twelve and the Genii]]''
*[[Eric Gregory Award]]: [[Donald Serrell Thomas|Donald Thomas]], [[James Simmons (poet)|James Simmons]], [[Brian Johnson (poet)|Brian Johnson]], [[Jenny Joseph]]
*[[James Tait Black Memorial Prize]] for fiction: [[Ronald Hardy]], ''Act of Destruction''
*[[James Tait Black Memorial Prize]] for biography: [[Meriol Trevor]], ''Newman: The Pillar and the Cloud'' and ''Newman: Light in Winter''
*[[Miles Franklin Award]]: [[Thea Astley]], ''[[The Well Dressed Explorer]]'' and [[George Turner (writer)|George Turner]], ''[[The Cupboard Under the Stairs]]''
*[[Newbery Medal]] for [[children's literature]]: [[Elizabeth George Speare]], ''[[The Bronze Bow]]''
*[[Newdigate Prize]]: [[Stanley Johnson (writer)|Stanley Johnson]]
*[[Nobel Prize for Literature]]: [[John Steinbeck]]
*[[Premio Nadal]]: [[José María Mendiola]], ''Muerte por fusilamiento''
*[[Pulitzer Prize for Drama]]: [[Frank Loesser]], [[Abe Burrows]], ''[[How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (musical)|How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying]]''
*[[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction]]: [[Edwin O'Connor]], ''[[The Edge of Sadness]]''
*[[Pulitzer Prize for Poetry]]: [[Alan Dugan]], ''Poems''
*[[Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry]]: [[Christopher Fry]]

==References==
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