1970 in literature

Events

• Deliverance by American poet James Dickey published. In 2001, the book would be named as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by the editorial board of the American Modern Library.

New Books

• Ali and Nino[?] - Kurban Said[?]
• Ball Four[?] - Jim Bouton[?]
• The Bluest Eye[?] - Toni Morrison
• The Crystal Cave[?] - Mary Stewart
• Deliverance - James Dickey
• The Fall of the Towers (Trilogy)[?] - Samuel R. Delany
• Fifth Business[?] - Robertson Davies
• Frederick the Great - Nancy Mitford
• The French Lieutenant's Woman - John Fowles
• The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight[?] - Jimmy Breslin[?]
• Great Lion of God[?] - Taylor Caldwell
• A Happy Death[?] (La Mort heureuse) - Albert Camus
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings[?] - Maya Angelou[?]
• Inside the Third Reich - Albert Speer
• Julia and the Bazooka[?] - Anna Kavan[?]
• Kamouraska[?] - Anne Hébert[?]
• Love Story - Erich Segal[?]
• The Naked Face[?] - Sidney Sheldon[?]
• The National Dream[?] - Pierre Berton
• Only the Ball was White[?] - Robert Peterson[?]
• QB VII[?] - Leon Uris
• Ringworld - Larry Niven
• The Trumpet Of The Swan[?] - E.B. White
• Travels with My Aunt - Graham Greene

Births

Deaths

• April 11 - John O'Hara, novelist

Awards

• Booker Prize: Bernice Rubens, The Elected Member
• Newberry Medal for children's literature: William H. Armstrong[?], Sounder
• Nobel Prize for Literature: Alexander Solzhenitsyn
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Charles Gordone[?], No Place To Be Somebody
• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Jean Stafford[?], Collected Stories
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Richard Howard[?], Untitled Subjects