Brendan Behan Is Dead
Mar. 20, 1964 - Brendan Behan (pictured in Dublin in 1960), the Irish playwright, died today at Meath Hospital in Dublin. He was 41 years...
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Mar 10
John Updike and Five Others Receive National Book Awards
Mar. 10, 1964 - Six authors — John Updike (pictured), Aileen Ward, Christopher Tunnard, Boris Pushkarev, William H. McNeill, and John...
Dec 9, 2023
Ernest Hemingway’s Widow Discloses Creative Work Left Behind
Dec. 9, 1963 - Mrs. Mary Hemingway (right in 1952), widow of the late Ernest Hemingway, disclosed today that a novel, a travel book, a...
Nov 24, 2023
C.S. Lewis Is Dead
Nov. 24, 1963 - Professor C.S Lewis, literary historian, Christian apologist, and author of “The Screwtape Letters,” died Friday at his...
Nov 23, 2023
Aldous Huxley Is Dead
Nov. 23, 1963 - Aldous Huxley (pictured in 1948), the novelist-philosopher-historian whose satirical novel “Brave New World” (1932) set a...
Oct 11, 2023
Jean Cocteau Is Dead
Oct. 11, 1963 - Jean Cocteau (pictured in 1960), whose avant-garde creativity illuminated French intellectual life for half a century,...
Jul 10, 2023
“Tropic of Cancer” Ruled Obscene
July 10, 1963 - New York state’s highest court held in a 4-3 decision today that Henry Miller’s novel “Tropic of Cancer” is obscene under...
May 5, 2023
Steinbeck Dog Charley Is Dead
May 5, 1963 - Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck (pictured last year) arrived at a White House dinner last week with sad news:...
Feb 14, 2023
Reclusive J.D. Salinger Publishes New Book
Feb. 14, 1963 - Just in case those who are following the chronicles of the Glass family have missed the news, two more J.D. Salinger...
Dec 10, 2022
Dec. 10, 1962 - John Steinbeck accepts the Nobel Prize
Dec. 10, 1962 - American author John Steinbeck accepted his Nobel Prize for Literature in Stockholm today. #books #literature
Dec 10, 2022
Author John Steinbeck Accepts Nobel Prize for Literature
Dec. 10, 1962 - American author John Steinbeck (right) accepted his Nobel Prize for Literature in Stockholm today. After expressing his...
Oct 25, 2022
Steinbeck Wins Nobel Prize for Literature
Oct. 25, 1962 - John Steinbeck (pictured) has won the 1962 Nobel Prize for Literature. The 60-year-old author is the sixth American to be...
Oct 9, 2022
Sylvia Beach Dead at 75
Oct. 9, 1962 - Sylvia Beach (pictured with James Joyce in 1920), the bookshop owner who made literary history in 1922 when she became the...
Sep 14, 2022
Struggling Crime Novelist Found Dead in New York Hotel
Sept. 14, 1962 - A man identified by the police as William Lindsay Gresham, the writer, was found dead today in his room at the Dixie...
Sep 7, 2022
Author Isak Dinesen Dead
Sept. 7, 1962 - Danish author Isak Dinesen (pictured center with Marilyn Monroe and Carson McCullers in 1959). She was 77 years old. The...
Aug 21, 2022
Books: Joseph Heller’s “Catch-22”
Aug. 21, 1962 - “Catch-22,” a satirical novel by Joseph Heller (pictured while serving in WWII) about the Air Force, will be turned into...
Aug 9, 2022
Author Hermann Hesse Dead at 85
Aug. 9, 1962 - Hermann Hesse (pictured last year), the German-born Swiss author who won the 1946 Nobel Prize for Literature, died today...
Jul 6, 2022
Faulkner's Home was Oxford, Miss.
July 6, 1962 - Although William Faulkner’s stories of northeast Mississippi were never understood by many, Oxford, Mississippi, the city...
Jul 6, 2022
President Kennedy Praises Faulkner
July 6, 1962 - President Kennedy praised William Faulkner today as one of the “great creators of this age.” Mr. Kennedy’s statement,...
Jul 6, 2022
William Faulkner, Nobel Prize-winning Author, Dead at 64
July 6, 1962 - William Faulkner (pictured in 1938) died of a heart attack this morning at Wright’s Sanatorium in Byhali, Mississippi. The...
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