1977 in literature

Events

New Books

• The Amityville Horror[?] - Jay Anson[?]
• Beggarman, Thief[?] - Irwin Shaw[?]
• Bloodline[?] - Sidney Sheldon[?]
• A Bonus[?] - Elizabeth Smart
• The Chancellor Manuscript[?] - Robert Ludlum
• Child of the Morning[?] - Pauline Gedge[?]
• The Complete Book of Running[?] - Jim Fixx
• Dreams Die First[?] - Harold Robbins
• The Honourable Schoolboy[?] - John le Carré
• How to Save Your Own Life[?] - Erica Jong
• Illusions[?] - Richard Bach
• Oliver's Story[?] - Erich Segal[?]
• A Scanner Darkly - Philip K. Dick
• The Sea, The Sea[?] - Iris Murdoch
• The Shining - Stephen King
• The Slave Girl[?] - Buchi Emecheta[?]
• Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison
• Terms of Endearment[?] - Larry McMurtry[?]
• The Thorn Birds[?] - Colleen McCullough[?]
• The True American, A Folk Fable[?] - Melvin Van Peebles[?]
• The Wars[?] - Timothy Findley
• Rocky Marciano. Biography of A First Son[?] - Everett M. Skehan[?]

Births

Deaths

• July 2 - Vladimir Nabokov, Russian/American novelist
• December 22 - Frank Thiess[?], German writer

Awards

• Booker Prize: Paul Scott[?], Staying On
• Newberry Medal for children's literature: Mildred Taylor[?], Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
• Nobel Prize for Literature: Vicente Aleixandre
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Michael Cristofer[?], The Shadow Box
• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: no award given
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: James Merrill[?], Divine Comedies