1963 in literature
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See also: 1962 in literature, other events of 1963, 1964 in literature, list of years in literature.
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Events
- First United States printing of John Cleland's 1749 novel, Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure). The book is banned for obscenity, triggering a court case by its publisher.
New Books
- The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
- Benefactor - Susan Sontag
- Caravans - James A. Michener
- Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
- City of Night - John Rechy
- The Collector - John Fowles
- Elizabeth Appleton - John O'Hara
- John Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure - John Cleland
- The Glass-Blowers - Daphne du Maurier
- Gradmother and the Priests - Taylor Caldwell
- The Group - Mary McCarthy
- Happiness Is a Warm Puppy - Charles Schulz
- The Making of the English Working Class - E. P. Thompson
- On Her Majesty's Secret Service - Ian Fleming
- Planet of the Apes (La Plan�te des Singes) - Pierre Boulle
- The Rise of the West - William H. McNeill
- The Sand Pebbles - Richard McKenna
- Second Skin - John Hawkes
- The Shoes of the Fisherman - Morris West
- Six Easy Pieces - Richard P. Feynman
- The Spy who Came in from the Cold - [[John le Carr�]]
- That Summer in Paris - Morley Callaghan
Births
- June 25 - Yann Martel, author
- Alice Sebold, author
Deaths
- January 29 - Robert Frost, poet
- February 11 - Sylvia Plath, poet/novelist.
- March 4 - William Carlos Williams, writer
- August 27 - W. E. B. Du Bois, writer/civil rights
- November 22 - Aldous Huxley, novelist
- November 22 - C.S. Lewis - novelist, Christian apologist, and English professor
- December 25 - Tristan Tzara, French poet and essayist
- Theodore Roethke - American poet
Awards
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Madeline L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time
- Nobel Prize for literature - Giorgos Seferis
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: no award given
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: William Faulkner - The Reivers
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: William Carlos Williams: Pictures from Breughel
References
- Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "1963_in_literature" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1963_in_literature, used under the GNU Free Documentation License
