1959 in literature

Events

New Books

• Advertisement for Myself[?] - Norman Mailer
• Advise and Consent[?] - Allen Drury[?]
• The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz[?] - Mordecai Richler
• The Children of Gebelaawi[?] - Naguib Mahfouz
• Children of the Wolf[?] - Alfred Duggan[?]
• Dear and Glorious Physician[?] - Taylor Caldwell
• The Elements of Style - William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White
• Exodus - Leon Uris
• Goldfinger - Ian Fleming
• Goodbye, Columbus - Philip Roth
• The Haunting of Hill House[?] - Shirley Jackson
• Hawaii[?] - James A. Michener
• Henderson the Rain King[?] - Saul Bellow
• The Magic Christian - Terry Southern[?]
• Mountolive[?] - Lawrence Durrell
• Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris[?] - Paul Gallico[?]
• Naked Lunch[?] - William S. Burroughs
• Poor No More[?] - Robert Ruark[?]
• Psycho[?] - Robert Bloch
• Starship Troopers - Robert Heinlein
• The Tin Drum[?] - Gunter Grass
• The Ugly American[?] - William J. Lederer[?] & Eugene L. Burdick[?]

Births

• May 3 - Ben Elton, British comedian and author

Deaths

• February 28 - Maxwell Anderson[?], playwright, film writer
• March 26 - Raymond Chandler, American novelist.
• June 23 - Boris Vian, French novelist

Awards

• Newberry Medal for children's literature: Elizabeth George Speare[?], The Witch of Blackbird Pond
• Nobel Prize for literature: Salvatore Quasimodo
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Archibald Macleish[?], J. B.
• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Robert Lewis Taylor[?], The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Stanley Kunitz[?], Selected Poems 1928-1958