1960 in literature

Events

• Lawrence Durrell publishes Clea[?], the final volume of the four-book collection titled The Alexandria Quartet[?] that began in 1957. 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.

New Books

• Casanova's Chinese Restaurant[?] - Anthony Powell
• The Chapman Report[?] - Irving Wallace[?]
• Clea[?] - Lawrence Durrell
• Critique of Dialectical Reason - Jean-Paul Sartre
• Don't Tell Alfred[?] - Nancy Mitford
• For Your Eyes Only[?] - Ian Fleming
• Green Eggs and Ham[?] - Dr. Seuss
• Hunters in a Narrow Street[?] - Jabra Ibrahim Jabra[?]
• The Many Colored Coat[?] - Morley Callaghan
• The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich[?] - William L. Shirer[?]
• To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
• The Torch[?] - Wilder Penfield[?]
• Truth and Method[?] - Hans-Georg Gadamer
• The Violent Bear It Away[?] - Flannery O'Connor
• The White Stone[?] - Carlo Coccioli[?]

Births

• November 10 - Neil Gaiman, author

Deaths

• January 4 - Albert Camus
• January 12 - Nevil Shute, writer
• January 28 - Zora Neale Hurston
• November 28 - Richard Wright, author

Awards

• Newberry Medal for children's literature: Joseph Krumgold[?], Onion John
• Nobel Prize for literature: Saint-John Perse[?]
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Jerome Weidman[?], George Abbott for book' Jerry Bock[?] for music, and Sheldon Harnick[?] for lyrics, Fiorello!
• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Allen Drury[?] - Advise and Consent
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: W. D. Snodgrass[?]: Heart's Needle