1974 in literature

Events

New Books

• All the President's Men - Carl Bernstein[?] & Bob Woodward
• Carrie - Stephen King
• Centennial[?] - James A. Michener
• Crime Partners[?] - Donald Goines[?]
• The Cry of the Halidon[?] - Robert Ludlum
• Death Sleep[?] - John Hawkes[?]
• The Diviners[?] - Margaret Laurence[?]
• The Dogs of War[?] - Frederick Forsyth[?]
• Falstaff - Robert Nye[?]
• Fear of Flying[?] - Erica Jong
• The Last Days of Louisiana Red[?] - Ishmael Reed[?]
• Let Me Alone[?] - Anna Kavan[?]
• Look at the Harlequins[?] - Vladimir Nabokov
• The Other Side of Midnight[?] - Sidney Sheldon[?]
• Pilgrim at Tinker Creek[?] - Annie Dillard
• The Pirate[?] - Harold Robbins
• The Power Broker[?] - Robert A. Caro
• Something Happened[?] - Joseph Heller
• Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy[?] - John le Carré
• Wait Until the Evening[?] - Hal Bennett[?]
• Watership Down - Richard Adams
• A Wind in the Door[?] - Madeleine L'Engle[?]
• Working[?] - Studs Terkel

Births

Deaths

• December 14 - Walter Lippmann, writer

Awards

• Booker Prize: Nadine Gordimer, The Conservationist
• Newberry Medal for children's literature: Paula Fox[?], The Slave Dancer
• Nobel Prize for Literature: Evyind Johnson[?] and Harry Martinson
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: no award given
• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: no award given
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Robert Lowell[?], The Dolphin