1962 in literature
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See also: 1961 in literature, other events of 1962, 1963 in literature, list of years in literature.
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[edit] Events
- Arthur Miller marries photographer Inge Morath.
- Joe Orton and Kenneth Halliwell are prosecuted and jailed for defacing library books.
- A tape-recorded conversation on science fiction took place between Kingsley Amis, C. S. Lewis and Brian Aldiss in Lewis's rooms at Cambridge.
- The works of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin are denounced by the Roman Catholic Church.
- Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath separate.
- Lynne Reid Banks goes to live in a kibbutz.
- George Oppen published his first collection of poetry since Discrete Series in 1934, breaking a 28 year silence. Goes on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1969
[edit] New books
- J. G. Ballard - The Drowned World
- William Barrett - Lilies of the Field
- Giorgio Bassani - The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini)
- Thomas Berger -Reinhart in Love
- Ray Bradbury - Something Wicked This Way Comes
- John Braine - Life at the Top
- Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange
- William S. Burroughs - The Ticket That Exploded
- Taylor Caldwell - A Prologue To Love
- James Clavell - King Rat
- Len Deighton - The IPCRESS File
- August Derleth
- August Derleth editor - Dark Mind, Dark Heart
- Philip K. Dick - The Man in the High Castle
- Allen Drury - A Shade of Difference
- William Faulkner - The Reivers
- Ian Fleming - The Spy Who Loved Me
- Aldous Huxley - Island
- James Jones - The Thin Red Line
- Ken Kesey - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- John le Carré - A Murder of Quality
- Madeleine L'Engle - A Wrinkle in Time
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh - Dearly Beloved
- H.P. Lovecraft - Dreams and Fancies
- Alistair MacLean - The Satan Bug
- Eloise McGraw - The Golden Goblet
- Vladimir Nabokov - Pale Fire
- Flannery O'Connor - Wise Blood
- Anthony Powell - The Kindly Ones
- Katherine Anne Porter - Ship of Fools
- Mary Renault - The Bull from the Sea
- Isaac Bashevis Singer - The Slave
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
- Mary Stewart - The Moon-Spinners
- Kurt Vonnegut - Mother Night
- Irving Wallace - The Prize
- Elie Wiesel - Day
- David Wilkerson - The Cross and the Switchblade
- Herman Wouk - Youngblood Hawke
[edit] New drama
- Edward Albee - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- Friedrich Dürrenmatt - Die Physiker (The Physicists)
- Witold Gombrowicz - Historia
[edit] Poetry
- George Oppen - The Materials
- Al Purdy - Poems for all the Annettes
- William Carlos Williams - Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems
[edit] Non-fiction
- W. H. Auden - 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 (Fourth book in the Plantagenet or Pageant of England series)
- L. Sprague de Camp – Energy and Power
- August Derleth – 100 Books by August Derleth
- Milton Friedman – Capitalism and Freedom
- Fletcher Knebel & Charles W. Bailey II– Seven Days in May
- Thomas Kuhn – The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
- W. Somerset Maugham – Looking Back
- V. S. Naipaul – The Middle Passage: Impressions of Five Societies - British, French and Dutch in the West Indies and South America
- Louis Nizer - My Life in Court
- John Steinbeck – Travels With Charley: In Search of America
- Barbara Tuchman – The Guns of August
[edit] Births
- February 21 - David Foster Wallace, novelist
- March 31 - Michal Viewegh, Czech language writer
- October 19 - Tracy Chevalier, novelist
- unknown date - Mark Haddon, novelist
- unknown date - David Edwards, journalist
- unknown date - Sebastian Junger, novelist
[edit] Deaths
- February 16 - Frank Prewett, poet
- April 24 - Emilio Prados, poet
- May 26 - Wilfred Wilson Gibson, poet
- June 2 - Vita Sackville-West, poet and gardener
- July 6 - William Faulkner, American novelist
- July 21 - G. M. Trevelyan, historian
- July 27 - Richard Aldington, World War I writer
- August 9 - Hermann Hesse, novelist
- September 3 - E. E. Cummings, poet
- September 23 - Patrick Hamilton, dramatist
- December 3 - Dame Mary Gilmore, poet and journalist
[edit] Awards
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Fiction, William Faulkner
- Eric Gregory Award: Donald Thomas, James Simmons, Brian Johnson (poet, Jenny Joseph
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Elizabeth George Speare, The Bronze Bow
- Newdigate prize: 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
- 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
