1976 in literature

Events

• Saul Bellow won both the Nobel Prize for Literature and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

New Books

• 1876 - Gore Vidal
• Blubber - Judy Blume
• The Deep[?] - Peter Benchley[?]
• Dolores[?] - Jacqueline Susann[?]
• Falstaff[?] - Robert Nye[?]
• The Final Days[?] - Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein[?]
• Flight To Canada[?] - Ishmael Reed[?]
• The Grass is Always Greener over the Septic Tank[?] - Erma Bombeck
• Infants of the Spring[?] - Anthony Powell
• Inferno - Larry Niven
• Just An Old Sweet Song[?] - Melvin Van Peebles[?]
• A Piece of My Heart[?] - Richard Ford
• Roots - Alex Haley
• Slapstick or Lonesome No More![?] - Kurt Vonnegut
• Sleeping Murder - Agatha Christie
• A Stranger in the Mirror[?] - Sidney Sheldon[?]
• The Sunflower[?] - Simon Wiesentha[?]
• Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing[?] - Judy Blume
• To Jerusalem and Back[?] - Saul Bellow
• Trinity - Leon Uris
• Triton - Samuel R. Delany

Births

Deaths

Awards

• Booker Prize: David Storey[?], Saville
• Newberry Medal for children's literature: Susan Cooper, The Grey King
• Nobel Prize for Literature: Saul Bellow
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Michael Bennett[?] for concept, choreography, and direction; James Kirkwood[?] for book, Marvin Hamlisch[?] for lyrics, Nicholas Dante[?] for music, A Chorus Line[?]
• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Saul Bellow - Humboldt's Gift
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: John Ashbery: Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror