1968 in literature

Events

• Dean R. Koontz's first novel, Star Quest[?] is published.

New Books

• Airport[?] - Arthur Hailey
• Armies of the Night[?] - Norman Mailer
• Cancer Ward[?] - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
• Cocksure[?] - Mordecai Richler
• Couples[?] - John Updike
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick
• The Double Helix[?] - James D. Watson[?]
• The End of Obscenity: The trials of Lady Chatterley, Tropic of Cancer and Fanny Hill[?] - Charles Rembar[?]
• The First Circle[?] - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
• The Ice-Cream Headache and Other Stories[?] - James Jones[?]
• Lonesome Cities[?] (poetry) - Rod McKuen[?]
• The Military Philosophers[?] - Anthony Powell
• The Money Game[?] - Adam Smith
• Myra Breckenridge[?] - Gore Vidal
• Preserve and Protect[?] - Allen Drury[?]
• The Salzburg Connection[?] - Helen McInnes[?]
• A Small Town in Germany[?] - John le Carré
• Testimony of Two Men[?] - Taylor Caldwell

Births

Deaths

• April 16 - Edna Ferber
• November 25 - Upton Sinclair
• December 5 - Anna Kavan[?]
• December 20 - John Steinbeck

Awards

• Newberry Medal for children's literature: E. L. Konigsburg[?], From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
• Nobel Prize for Literature: Yasunari Kawabata[?]
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: no award given
• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: William Styron, The Confessions of Nat Turner
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Anthony Hecht[?], The Hard Hours