1964 in literature

Events

New Books

• Armageddon - Leon Uris
• The Arms of Krupp 1587-1968[?] - William Manchester[?]
• The Farm Book[?] - Jan Pfloog[?]
• Fortunate Pilgrim[?] - Mario Puzo
• Funeral in Berlin - Len Deighton
• Herzog[?] - Saul Bellow
• Julian - Gore Vidal
• Little Big Man[?] - Thomas Berger[?]
• The Luzhin Defense - Vladimir Nabokov
• The Man[?] - Irving Wallace[?]
• The Martyred[?] - Richard E. Kim[?]
• A Moveable Feast - Ernest Hemingway
• A Purple Place For Dying[?] - John D. MacDonald[?]
• Rascal[?] - Sterling North[?]
• The Rector of Justin[?] - Louis Auchincloss[?]
• Shadow and Act[?] - Ralph Ellison
• Shadow of a Bull[?] - Maia Wojciechowska[?]
• A Song of Six Pence[?] - A.J. Cronin
• The Valley of Bones[?] - Anthony Powell
• When the Lion Feeds[?] - Wilbur Smith[?]
• Why We Can't Wait[?] - Martin Luther King, Jr.
• You Only Live Twice[?] - Ian Fleming

Births

• July 3 - Joanne Harris, author

Deaths

• January 17 - T.H. White, author
• February 25 - Grace Metalious[?], writer Peyton Place
• August 3 - Flannery O'Connor
• August 12 - Ian Fleming

Awards

• Newberry Medal for children's literature: Emily Cheney Neville[?], It's Like This, Cat
• Nobel Prize for literature - Jean-Paul Sartre
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: no award given
• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: no award given
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Louis Simpson[?]: At The End Of The Open Road