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1968 in literature
See also:
1967 in literature
,
other events of 1968
,
1969 in literature
,
list of years in literature
.
Table of contents
1 Events
2 New Books
3 Births
4 Deaths
5 Awards
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
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