1960s Timeline

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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...

Apr 20, 2022

William Faulkner Visits West Point

Apr. 20, 1962 - William Faulkner ended a two-day visit to West Point today. He said he had been “pleasantly astounded” by the literary...

Mar 8, 2022

Hemingway Left Four Novels, Dozens of Unpublished Stories

Mar. 8, 1962 - Unpublished novels by Ernest Hemingway (second from left) — possibly four of them — and dozens of stories and sketches...

Jan 28, 2022

Books: Barbara Tuchman's "The Guns of August"

Jan. 28, 1962 - Available in bookstores today is “The Guns of August,” a volume of history by Barbara W. Tuchman centered on the first...

Nov 2, 2021

Humorist James Thurber is Dead

Nov. 2, 1961 - James Thurber, the writer and humorist, died of pneumonia today at New York Doctors Hospital, where he had undergone...