1957 in literature

Events

• The Wapshot Chronicle[?] by John Cheever[?] is published. In 2001, the book would be named to the list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by the editorial board of the American Modern Library.

• Lawrence Durrell publishes Justine[?], the first of volume of The Alexandria Quartet[?]. The final of the four volumes will be published in 1960 and in 2001, the collection would be named as part of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by the editorial board of the American Modern Library.

• On the Road[?] by Jack Kerouac is published. In 2001, the book would be listed as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by the editorial board of the American Modern Library.

New Books

• At Lady Molly's[?] - Anthony Powell
• Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
• Below the Salt[?] - Thomas B. Costain
• Blue Camellia[?] - Frances Parkinson Keyes[?]
• By Love Possessed[?] - James Gould Cozzens[?]
• The Cat in the Hat - Dr. Seuss
• The Comforters[?] - Muriel Spark
• Compulsion - Meyer Levin[?]
• Doomsday Morning[?] - C. L. Moore
• Eagle's Nest[?] - Anna Kavan[?]
• Eloise in Paris[?] - Kay Thompson[?]
• From Russia With Love[?] - Ian Fleming
• Justine[?] - Lawrence Durrell
• Kids Say the Darndest Things![?] - Art Linkletter
• La Loi[?] - Roger Vailland
• Long Day's Journey Into Night - Eugene O'Neill
• On the Beach - Nevil Shute
• On the Road[?] - Jack Kerouac
• Rascals in Paradise[?] - James A. Michener
• The Scapegoat[?] - Daphne du Maurier
• Some Came Running - James Jones[?]
• Sugar Street[?] - Naguib Mahfouz
• Voltaire in Love[?] - Nancy Mitford
• The Wapshot Chronicle[?] - John Cheever[?]

Births

Deaths

• February 10 - Laura Ingalls Wilder, author
• March 29 - Joyce Cary[?], author
• June 27 - Malcolm Lowry, author
• December 17 - Dorothy L. Sayers, author

Awards

• Newberry Medal for children's literature: Virginia Sorenson[?], Miracles on Maple Street
• Nobel Prize for literature: Albert Camus
• 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