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1962 in literature
See also:
1961 in literature
,
other events of 1962
,
1963 in literature
,
list of years in literature
.
Table of contents
1 Events
2 New Books
3 Births
4 Deaths
5 Awards
Events
Pale Fire
by
Vladimir Nabokov
is published. In
2001
, the novel would be one of two books by Nabokov to be on the list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century as selected by the editorial board of the
American Modern Library
.
New Books
Apples of Gold[?]
-
Jo Petty[?]
The Changeling[?]
-
Thomas Middleton
Dearly Beloved[?]
-
Anne Marrow Lindbergh[?]
The Guns of August[?]
-
Barbara Tuchman
The Kindly Ones
-
Anthony Powell
Lilies of the Field
-
William Barrett[?]
The Man in the High Castle
-
Philip K. Dick
Mother Night[?]
-
Kurt Vonnegut
A Murder of Quality[?]
-
John le Carré
My Life in Court[?]
-
Louis Nizer[?]
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
-
Ken Kesey
Pale Fire
-
Vladimir Nabokov
The Prize[?]
-
Irving Wallace[?]
A Prologue To Love[?]
-
Taylor Caldwell
The Reivers[?]
-
William Faulkner
Seven Days in May[?]
-
Fletcher Knebel[?]
&
Charles W. Bailey II[?]
Sex and the Single Girl[?]
-
Helen Gurley Brown[?]
A Shade of Difference[?]
-
Allen Drury[?]
Ship of Fools
-
Katherine Anne Porter[?]
Silent Spring
-
Rachel Carson
The Spy Who Loved Me[?]
-
Ian Fleming
Stranger in a Strange Land
-
Robert A. Heinlein
The Thin Red Line
-
James Jones[?]
Travels with Charley: In Search of America[?]
-
John Steinbeck
Wise Blood[?]
-
Flannery O'Connor
A Wrinkle in Time[?]
--
Madeleine L'engle[?]
Youngblood Hawke[?]
-
Herman Wouk[?]
Births
October 19
-
Tracy Chevalier[?]
, author
Deaths
July 6
-
William Faulkner
, American novelist
August 9
-
Hermann Hesse
, author
Awards
Newberry Medal
for
children's literature
:
Elizabeth George Speare[?]
,
The Bronze Bow
Nobel Prize for literature
-
John Steinbeck
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
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