1972 in literature

Events

New Books

• August 1914[?] - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
• Captains and the Kings[?] - Taylor Caldwell
• Die the Long Day[?] - Horace Orlando Patterson[?]
• Endurance[?] - James L Harris[?]
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
• The Gods Themselves[?] - Isaac Asimov
• The Great Bridge[?] - David McCullough[?]
• Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Richard Bach
• The Manticore[?] - Robertson Davies
• My Name is Asher Lev[?] - Chaim Potok
• The Odessa File[?] - Frederick Forsyth[?]
• The Osterman Weekend[?] - Robert Ludlum
• Semi-Tough[?] - Dan Jenkins[?]
• Two from Galilee[?] - Marjorie Holmes[?]
• The Word[?] - Irving Wallace[?]

Births

Deaths

Awards

• Booker Prize: John Berger[?], G
• Newberry Medal for children's literature: Robert C. Obrien[?], Mrs. Frisbee and the Rats of NIMH
• Nobel Prize for Literature: Heinrich Böll
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: no award given
• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Wallace Stegner[?] - Angle of Repose
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: James Wright, Collected Poems