1978 in literature

Events

New Books

• Beggar Maid[?] - Alice Munro[?]
• Bloodlines[?] - Sidney Sheldon[?]
• Bright Flows The River[?] - Taylor Caldwell
• Chesapeake[?] - James A. Michener
• Coup[?] - John Updike
• Empire: A Visual Novel[?] - Samuel R. Delany
• Evergreen - Belva Plain[?]
• Eye of the Needle[?] - Ken Follett
• Fools Die[?] - Mario Puzo
• Going After Cacciato[?] - Tim O'Brien
• Hail The Conquering Hero[?] - Frank Yerby[?]
• The Holcroft Covenant[?] - Robert Ludlum
• Illusions[?] - Richard Bach
• An Imaginary Life[?] - David Malouf[?]
• In My Father's House[?] - Ernest J.Gaines[?]
• The Memoirs of Richard Nixon[?] - Richard Nixon
• Mommie Dearest[?] - Christina Crawford[?]
• Running Dogs[?] - Don DeLillo
• Scruples[?] - Judith Krantz[?]
• Second Generation[?] - Howard Fast
• The Stories of John Cheever[?] - John Cheever[?]
• A Swiftly Tilting Planet[?] - Madeleine L'Engle[?]
• War and Remembrance[?] - Herman Wouk[?]
• The World According to Garp - John Irving
• Young Adolf[?] - Beryl Bainbridge
• The Ends of Power[?] - H. R. Haldeman

Births

Deaths

• March 24 - Leigh Brackett, science fiction writer

Awards

• Booker Prize: Iris Murdoch, The Sea, The Sea[?]
• Newberry Medal for children's literature: Katherine Paterson[?], Bridge to Terabithia
• Nobel Prize for Literature: Isaac Bashevis Singer
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Donald L. Coburn[?], The Gin Game
• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: James Alan McPherson, Elbow Room
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Howard Nemerov[?], Collected Poems