1973 in literature

Events

New Books

• The Billion Dollar Sure Thing[?] – Paul E. Erdman[?]
• The Black Prince[?] - Iris Murdoch
• Breakfast of Champions[?] - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
• Burnt Offerings[?] - Robert Marasco[?]
• Burr - Gore Vidal
• The Court-Martial of Daniel Boone[?] - Allan W. Eckert
• Cromwell, our Chief of Men[?] - Antonia Fraser
• Demon Seed[?] - Dean R. Koontz
• Devil Tree[?] - Jerzy Kosinski
• Evening in Byzantium[?] - Irwin Shaw[?]
• Eye of the Storm[?] - Patrick White
• Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72[?] - Hunter S Thompson
• Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
• The Honorary Consul[?] - Graham Greene
• If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Send Me Home[?] - Tim O'Brien
• The Matlock Paper[?] - Robert Ludlum
• The Odessa File[?] - Frederick Forsyth[?]
• Once Is Not Enough[?] - Jacqueline Susann[?]
• Sula - Toni Morrison
• Tar Baby[?] - Jerome Charyn[?]
• Temporary Kings[?] - Anthony Powell
• Temptations of Big Bear[?] - Rudy Wiebe[?]
• There Is A Tree More Ancient Than Eden[?] - Leon Forrest[?]
• A Touch of Danger[?] - James Jones[?]
• Who Are You?[?] - Anna Kavan[?]

Births

Deaths

• March 6 - Pearl S. Buck
• June 30 - Nancy Mitford, English novelist and biographer
• September 23 - Pablo Neruda
• W. H. Auden

Awards

• Booker Prize: J. G. Farrell[?], The Siege of Krishnapur
• Newberry Medal for children's literature: Jean Craighead George[?], Julie of the Wolves
• Nobel Prize for Literature: Patrick White
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Jason Miller[?], That Championship Season
• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Eudora Welty, The Optimists Daughter
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Maxine Kumin[?], Up Country